04.30.2007 – The Holy Spirit is on the move – 1 Comment on Amazing God stories in Georgia Amazing God stories in Georgia For ten days in April, we experienced an amazing time of transformation during World Race pre-trip training. Here are… Read Post
04.29.2007 – Prayer – 2 Comments on What hinders prayer? What hinders prayer? Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to pra… Read Post
04.28.2007 – Youth Ministry – 10 Comments on Youth pastors as hired guns Youth pastors as hired guns Youth pastors approaching 50 often run right into a brick wall. The really tragic thing is when a guy like Mike pours… Read Post
04.27.2007 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 3 Comments on Why we need to share stories Why we need to share stories The disciples asked Jesus, “Why do you tell stories?” He answered, “I tell stories to create readiness, to nudge the … Read Post
04.26.2007 – Culture and Faith – 11 Comments on Media addiction is killing us in 7 ways Media addiction is killing us in 7 ways The media is a neutral thing, neither good nor bad – it’s just raw technology. The problem is that because it is so o… Read Post
04.25.2007 – Abandon – 2 Comments on Learning to see with spiritual eyes Learning to see with spiritual eyes The last two day’s blogs have explored how we inadvertently mistake stewardship for ownership when we are stewards of… Read Post
04.24.2007 – Simplicity Liberates You – No Comments on The slow poison of a long stewardship The slow poison of a long stewardship In yesterday’s blog, I unwrapped the subject of “the slow poison of a same place.” It’s a phenomenon whereby we becom… Read Post
04.23.2007 – Simplicity Liberates You – 5 Comments on The slow poison of a same place The slow poison of a same place We just visited our friends Mike and Terri Nicholaou in Virginia. They have a neighbor lady with an attitude who pres… Read Post
04.22.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 2 Comments on God heals the beautiful feet of an evangelist God heals the beautiful feet of an evangelist When I was in Cuba in 1995, I met Ramon Lopez, who was a revolutionary leader with Castro. He and his wife got… Read Post
04.21.2007 – Vulnerability and me – 3 Comments on Do I tell my floating dog story? Do I tell my floating dog story? We’re in Charlottesville, VA at the 20th year reunion of our business school. It’s an occasion for reminiscing. Arriv… Read Post
04.20.2007 – Discipling – 1 Comment on Why Jesus keeps us off balance Why Jesus keeps us off balance A central tenant of this blog is that to grow spiritually, we cannot settle into the comfortable and the familiar. A … Read Post
04.19.2007 – Vulnerability and me – 8 Comments on The power of vulnerability The power of vulnerability One of the braver things I’ve seen this year was a World Racer I’ll call “Bill” confess his pornography addiction to … Read Post
04.18.2007 – Better Living – 3 Comments on Getting the poetry back in your life: Over the Rhine Getting the poetry back in your life: Over the Rhine I don’t know about you, but there’s not enough poetry in my life. My soul has chords that need to be strummed far mor… Read Post
04.17.2007 – The Holy Spirit is on the move – 2 Comments on Are you hungry? Are you hungry? The whole point of this blog is to help you drain the complacency and comfort from your life so that you can experien… Read Post
04.16.2007 – Listening prayer – 5 Comments on An example of listening prayer An example of listening prayer I believe in taking risks. When a risk has been prayed over and is God-directed, it is a form of faith. Here’s an exa… Read Post
04.14.2007 – The Holy Spirit is on the move – 4 Comments on The story of Emilio & Luisa The story of Emilio & Luisa This past month our World Race team in the Andes mountains in Peru met an elderly couple, Emilio and Luisa Chavez. Af… Read Post
04.13.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 4 Comments on A story of church planting among the unreached A story of church planting among the unreached Here’s a great story from Bob Logan’s book on church planting movements that I pulled off Steve Addison’s blog. Su… Read Post
04.12.2007 – Simplicity Liberates You – 2 Comments on How much money is enough? How much money is enough? Here is an issue that so many of us want to keep private and off-limits even to good … Read Post
04.11.2007 – Culture and Faith – 3 Comments on Threadbare Christian words Threadbare Christian words The following from Buechner makes the distinction between Christian words and the concepts behind them. Many of us wh… Read Post
04.10.2007 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 3 Comments on Minister to others wherever you are Minister to others wherever you are Ron Walborn tells the following story. I was at the grocery store, checking out when the people behind m… Read Post
04.09.2007 – Amazing God Stories – 3 Comments on We have far more power available to us We have far more power available to us We’re sitting here in another World Race training conference in Georgia. We’re challenging the naturalistic worldvi… Read Post
04.08.2007 – Mobilization – 1 Comment on Following a God who loves the remnant Following a God who loves the remnant We are a people who discard our remnants. On this resurrection day, it is worth considering a God who loves the remna… Read Post
04.07.2007 – Church – 4 Comments on Make an extra effort to bridge the distance Make an extra effort to bridge the distance Last week my old friend Damon Ghee made a special effort to see Karen and I after we’d not seen one ano… Read Post
04.06.2007 – Comfort and Pain – 3 Comments on Smashing the God box Smashing the God box Ron Walborn tells the story of Kelly, a student at Nyack College where Walborn is a professor. A speaker at Nyack was… Read Post
