06.07.2007 – Identity issues – 2 Comments on The struggle for intimacy The struggle for intimacy To know others deeply and to be known is to put an exclamation point on our humanity. It is to meet the second hi… Read Post
06.06.2007 – How to Disciple – No Comments on How to find good teachers How to find good teachers The Bible seems to contradict itself. 2 Timothy 3:16 instructs us to teach. But James 3:1 says that not many of us sh… Read Post
06.05.2007 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 6 Comments on We are becoming old wineskins We are becoming old wineskins I just turned 49. Somewhere in my 40’s, I looked in the mirror and an aging man with thinning hair and crow’s feet… Read Post
06.04.2007 – Poverty – 10 Comments on Failed AIDS policies Failed AIDS policies I’m here in Swaziland for almost a month. There is an insidious policy being pushed by ignorant people … Read Post
06.03.2007 – Better Living – 2 Comments on Ministry professionals bowing at the tree of knowledge Ministry professionals bowing at the tree of knowledge God gave Adam two options and He gives us the same two options. At the tree of life you get fulfillment. At the tree … Read Post
06.02.2007 – Parenting – 2 Comments on You need to fight for purity You need to fight for purity “To the pure, all things are pure.” Titus 1:15 Somewhere along the line, we failed to draw a line. It’s not fashi… Read Post
06.01.2007 – Better Living – 1 Comment on My 12 most transformative books (part 2) My 12 most transformative books (part 2) This is a continuation from yesterday’s blog. The Acts of the Holy Spirit; Peter Wagner The book of “Acts” is t… Read Post
05.31.2007 – Better Living – 1 Comment on My 12 most transformative books (part 1) My 12 most transformative books (part 1) For better or worse, I am the person I’ve become in part as a result of the influence of people thru the books they’v… Read Post
05.30.2007 – Abandon – 2 Comments on Have you been wrecked this week? Have you been wrecked this week? Last week, I mentioned a new project that I helped launch late January of this year: Wrecked for the Ordinary. This o… Read Post
05.30.2007 – A broken world – 3 Comments on Persecution: the promise nobody wants Persecution: the promise nobody wants “In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted…” 2 Timothy 3:12 Why is thi… Read Post
05.29.2007 – Short-term missions – 3 Comments on Cost-me-nothing missions Cost-me-nothing missions Of all the blogs I’ve written, one blog stands head and shoulders above the others in popularity. It’s ironic, really… Read Post
05.29.2007 – Church – 5 Comments on Real community is hard Real community is hard This word – community – that we throw around (sometimes cavalierly) is, in practice, pretty tough. Part of what Je… Read Post
05.28.2007 – Culture and Faith – 12 Comments on The Bible: third part of the trinity? The Bible: third part of the trinity? Let me begin this provocative blog by saying, I thank the Lord for the Bible and want to protect it against heretics…. Read Post
05.27.2007 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 2 Comments on What adoption feels like What adoption feels like “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And b… Read Post
05.26.2007 – Church – 5 Comments on The consumer church The consumer church We live in the wealthiest society the world has ever known, a country where the poorest among us has life-enhancing a… Read Post
05.25.2007 – Dreaming – 4 Comments on Hope Trekking – Do We Launch a TV Show? Hope Trekking – Do We Launch a TV Show? I’m praying about a TV show. I want to tell the stories of desperate people around the world looking for and finding … Read Post
05.24.2007 – Spiritual Formation – 58 Comments on How do you learn to trust God? How do you learn to trust God? Here we are in Africa, a land where, if ever it would seem difficult to trust God, it would be here. How do you accou… Read Post
05.24.2007 – Abandon – No Comments on Not just another website Not just another website If you haven’t heard, AIM publishes an online magazine called Wrecked for the Ordinary. It grew from a theme that we … Read Post
05.23.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 1 Comment on Eyes opened in Mozambique Eyes opened in Mozambique Well, we just arrived safely in South Africa. Yesterday’s quick tour of Paris between flights was fun, even if we … Read Post
05.23.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 5 Comments on The blind will see The blind will see Still not convinced that God heals? Or, that he wants to heal you? Maybe you’re like me, and sometimes think that t… Read Post
05.22.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 5 Comments on ‘If you were to die tonight’ ‘If you were to die tonight’ Hello from Paris. Being on this trip to Africa reminds me of our first trip there in 1999. I have a philosophy that i… Read Post
05.21.2007 – Poverty – 2 Comments on Why are we off to Africa today? Why are we off to Africa today? Karen and I are on a plane to South Africa today (via Paris – where we’ll sleepily drag ourselves out of the terminal… Read Post
05.20.2007 – Prayer – 6 Comments on How should we pray? How should we pray? Jesus’ disciple John said, “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”* Over the years, Jesus’ disciples… Read Post
05.20.2007 – Kingdom Reality – No Comments on Peter Lord on the difference between the old and new testaments Peter Lord on the difference between the old and new testaments I was on my way to Vero Beach from Orlando last Wednesday. I stopped off at Cracker Barrel to talk to Peter Lord , a … Read Post
