12.17.2023 – Parenting – 7 Comments on How Fathers Can Learn To Play With Their Kids How Fathers Can Learn To Play With Their Kids Kids need fathers who play. Playing is good for their souls. Playing bonds dads with their kids. My theory is tha… Read Post
12.13.2023 – Leadership – 14 Comments on Dysfunction at AIM and What I learned Dysfunction at AIM and What I learned I have made mistakes over the years. I would do things differently if I could! Especially if people have been hur… Read Post
12.07.2023 – Vulnerability and me – No Comments on The Power of Vulnerability The Power of Vulnerability For much of my life I have fought against the very thing that God wanted from me. He wanted me to recognize that, in … Read Post
10.27.2023 – Comfort and Pain – 7 Comments on Pets Help Us to Grieve Pets Help Us to Grieve Our pets give us the chance to practice losing. As our kids grew, hamster burials gave way to dog funerals in our hom… Read Post
09.15.2023 – Parenting – 6 Comments on How do I raise kids who thrive? How do I raise kids who thrive? Jeff Goins wrote an essay this week on the compulsive busyness of parents. Often, as parents, we find ourselves overw… Read Post
08.17.2023 – Refugees & Crisis – No Comments on A Story of Escaping from the Maui Fire A Story of Escaping from the Maui Fire When Bully and Ashley Kotter closed on their Hawaiian plantation-style home in early August, they never dreamed tha… Read Post
08.09.2023 – My Life – 7 Comments on The Life of Dave Wroughton – My College Buddy The Life of Dave Wroughton – My College Buddy My best friend from college, David Wroughton, died yesterday. I loved Dave and wanted to share his story as I kne… Read Post
06.27.2023 – Journeys, Fathering & Men’s issues, Intergenerational connection – 2 Comments on Families Having the Best Year of Their Lives Families Having the Best Year of Their Lives When Bill and Katie Swan left on the World Race in 2010, it changed their lives. They had been married three years,… Read Post
05.24.2023 – Leadership, Vulnerable Leadership – 6 Comments on Learning to be a Vulnerable Leader Learning to be a Vulnerable Leader I’ve spent a lot of my life mentoring young leaders. Gen Z is different. While they desire mentoring, they want their… Read Post
05.10.2023 – Missions – No Comments on RIP George Verwer – A Missionary Statesman RIP George Verwer – A Missionary Statesman George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization (OM) and one of the greatest advocates for missions of our day died … Read Post
04.25.2023 – Uncategorized, Missions – 1 Comment on Update on the AIM Mexico Base Update on the AIM Mexico Base Over 30 years ago, God laid it on my heart to establish a training center and mission base in Mexico. Every n… Read Post
04.14.2023 – Culture and Faith – 4 Comments on To Grow in Faith, We Need Freedom to Fail To Grow in Faith, We Need Freedom to Fail Photo: AJ Yorio Growing up in a digital world makes our commitments continually reversible. Don’t like something p… Read Post
04.06.2023 – Culture and Faith – 5 Comments on Giving Up Your Need For Certainty Giving Up Your Need For Certainty This morning I find myself in Brooklyn, NY. I’m going to spend the day with the founders of StoryTime Chess, a bu… Read Post
03.29.2023 – Discipling – 2 Comments on Is It Possible to Apply Jesus’s Model of Spiritual Growth? Is It Possible to Apply Jesus’s Model of Spiritual Growth? You’d think it would have gotten easier to make a disciple. For one thing, in Jesus’s time, life was more difficu… Read Post
03.22.2023 – Youth Ministry – 2 Comments on Churches Raising Up World Changers Churches Raising Up World Changers Cal and Courtney Herrmann are the kind of sharp young couple who could get six figure jobs in a company near home… Read Post
03.20.2023 – Church – 7 Comments on Don’t Get Stuck Using an Old Wineskin Don’t Get Stuck Using an Old Wineskin Photo by Geda Žyvatkauskaitė The Bible is full of illustrations and lessons that involve wine. It’s the blood of … Read Post
02.16.2023 – Revival – 7 Comments on When Do We Need to Repent? The Asbury Revival Shows Us When Do We Need to Repent? The Asbury Revival Shows Us Photo by Ben White on Unsplash How rare is public repentance these days? Politicians who used to reach across the … Read Post
12.20.2022 – Vulnerable Leadership – 3 Comments on Why We Need Leaders Who Can Be Vulnerable Why We Need Leaders Who Can Be Vulnerable This generation of young people is hungering for authenticity and vulnerability. They’ve been lied to and have so man… Read Post
12.06.2022 – Writing Blogs and Books – 12 Comments on Books I’ve Written, Including Some You’ve Never Seen Books I’ve Written, Including Some You’ve Never Seen I began writing when I was young. Since high school, I’ve kept a journal. And as a 23 year-old working overseas, I wr… Read Post
11.21.2022 – Debriefing – No Comments on What is Spiritual Feedback? What is Spiritual Feedback? I grew up in a family that did not have great feedback loops. We were all about high-performance, but often you didn’… Read Post
11.21.2022 – Finding your call – 2 Comments on Learning from the door closing behind you Learning from the door closing behind you If you’ve been fired, why did it happen? As a young man, I was fired twice. The story I told myself about it I… Read Post
10.06.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment on How You Can Respond to Hurricane Ian How You Can Respond to Hurricane Ian Hurricane Ian – over 100 dead and $100B in private insurance claims. One of the worst natural disasters of our li… Read Post
09.27.2022 – Journeys – 7 Comments on 5 Lessons From a Decade Hiking the Camino 5 Lessons From a Decade Hiking the Camino I remember the first day I hiked the Camino de Santiago nearly 10 years ago. It was early in May – the air was cr… Read Post
09.07.2022 – Pain and the Kingdom of God – 1 Comment on How Can Parents Protect Their Children From Pain? How Can Parents Protect Their Children From Pain? Talia was just two years old when she pulled a pot of hot grits off the stove and burned her hand. She screamed in … Read Post