10.02.2018 – A broken world – 4 Comments on The Upside of Brokenness The Upside of Brokenness In America, we design for obsolescence and throw away broken things. It costs more to fix stuff than it does to just … Read Post
09.25.2018 – Intergenerational connection – 8 Comments on A Better Way to Do Funerals A Better Way to Do Funerals In my family, we are approaching a generational shift. Most of my parents’ generation has died or is dying. Along t… Read Post
09.18.2018 – Better Living – 3 Comments on Kilby’s 10 Principles and Rhythms to Live By Kilby’s 10 Principles and Rhythms to Live By All of us need principles and rhythms to live by lest we miss what’s most important. Clyde Kilby was an English profe… Read Post
09.10.2018 – Church – 6 Comments on Shouldn’t Churches Do Better at Identity Issues Than Venmo? Shouldn’t Churches Do Better at Identity Issues Than Venmo? Do you have identity issues? If so, welcome to the party. Blockchain technology may be bringing a new era … Read Post
08.31.2018 – Living Free – 5 Comments on It’s Time For A Women’s Movement in Africa It’s Time For A Women’s Movement in Africa One reason that Swaziland has had the highest AIDS rate in Africa is that the men abuse the women and get away with… Read Post
08.23.2018 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 4 Comments on If You’re Broken, There’s a Way Out: Get to Brokenness If You’re Broken, There’s a Way Out: Get to Brokenness My own messy life left me with two options: Cover it up – build some work-arounds that allow me to schlepp along… Read Post
08.17.2018 – Missions – 5 Comments on 5 Steps to Becoming a Missionary 5 Steps to Becoming a Missionary Austin Wesson and Rebekah Bouma met as young missionaries. Tragically, they got married and died on their honeymoon… Read Post
08.08.2018 – Blog Community – 23 Comments on How I Wrote 3000 Blogs: A Few Ideas How I Wrote 3000 Blogs: A Few Ideas I’ve been blogging since 2005. And it’s not been easy. Often it’s felt like drudgery. Starting in ’06, I began blogg… Read Post
08.03.2018 – Better Living – 7 Comments on How Much Rest Do You Really Need? How Much Rest Do You Really Need? I woke up this morning thankful for a good night’s rest. But many of you reading this struggled to get the sleep you … Read Post
07.19.2018 – Journeys – 4 Comments on How To Know If You’re Called to a Journey or a Destination How To Know If You’re Called to a Journey or a Destination If you like to travel, to go on a journey, there’s no better time to be alive. Catching a flight or renting a place… Read Post
07.10.2018 – Courage – 4 Comments on 3 Steps to Discovering Your Superpower 3 Steps to Discovering Your Superpower We all have one. But most of us struggle to understand what it is or how to deploy it. In the age of options, we da… Read Post
07.04.2018 – Courage – 10 Comments on 5 Lessons For Millennial Men From the Greatest Generation 5 Lessons For Millennial Men From the Greatest Generation We often hear about the struggles of millennial males. They could l… Read Post
06.29.2018 – Short-term missions – 12 Comments on Mission Trips That Make a Difference vs Volunteer Tourism Mission Trips That Make a Difference vs Volunteer Tourism I’ve spent over 30 years trying to help people do short-term missions in a way that is beneficial to both those hosti… Read Post
06.20.2018 – Living Free – 2 Comments on How To Get More Poetry Into Your Life How To Get More Poetry Into Your Life As I’ve gotten older, a sad, almost imperceptible thing began to happen. I began to lose touch with the poetry in my … Read Post
06.14.2018 – Better Living – 5 Comments on 20 Life Hacks To Find Peace In A Too-Busy World 20 Life Hacks To Find Peace In A Too-Busy World How do we survive this too-busy world in which we live? Allie Lousch is a friend with uncommon insight. She gives us … Read Post
06.09.2018 – A broken world – 4 Comments on How To Stop A Mob In Its Tracks How To Stop A Mob In Its Tracks Kailey Mattarella is a racer in India. She shared this story. I probably wouldn’t have responded as she did, but I … Read Post
05.29.2018 – Living Free – 5 Comments on 5 Ways to End Loneliness 5 Ways to End Loneliness Are you lonely? Apparently more and more of us are these days. I just read this headline: New Cigna Study Reve… Read Post
05.23.2018 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on Why We Need to Stop For the One Why We Need to Stop For the One All around us, people have needs. Some are more obvious than others and some we may be equipped to meet – to make a d… Read Post
05.15.2018 – Intergenerational connection – 9 Comments on Boomer Journeys – Discovering an Exciting Life Boomer Journeys – Discovering an Exciting Life We baby boomers grew up in the ’60’s, a time of rebellion. We were raised by parents who remembered the horror of w… Read Post
05.07.2018 – Living Free – 2 Comments on You Were Called to Be a Liberator – How To Set Captives Free You Were Called to Be a Liberator – How To Set Captives Free Just outside Granada, Nicaragua, is a jail. And the first thing you see when you walk in is a cage crammed wi… Read Post
04.17.2018 – Amazing God Stories – 10 Comments on World Racer Saves a Life on Everest Base Camp World Racer Saves a Life on Everest Base Camp Climbing Everest is not a part of the World Race. But we encourage Racers to find adventure wherever they go. One… Read Post
04.11.2018 – Faith & risk – 6 Comments on The Only Thing That Counts The Only Thing That Counts What is important in life? The Bible has something to say about that: “The only thing that counts is faith exp… Read Post
04.03.2018 – Kingdom Dreams – 2 Comments on What Can Kill Your Kingdom Dream What Can Kill Your Kingdom Dream Insofar as a dream is an idea that could one day become a reality, God is a dreamer and He loves to share His … Read Post
03.29.2018 – Identity issues – 10 Comments on Church Should Be Helping Us With Our Identity Issues Church Should Be Helping Us With Our Identity Issues Facebook is in the news this morning. They are reeling from allegations that they have gone too far. But so many othe… Read Post
