07.28.2022 – Improving yourself – 18 Comments on The Key To a Happy Life as You Get Older The Key To a Happy Life as You Get Older I’m 64 and have an actuarial lifespan of another 19 years. I’ve been studying how to make the best of them. When I … Read Post
07.21.2022 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 10 Comments on What Does a Good Men’s Retreat Look Like? What Does a Good Men’s Retreat Look Like? In ten days I’m flying to Italy to lead a men’s retreat for some priests. My question: What should it look like i… Read Post
07.11.2022 – Comfort and Pain – 2 Comments on Making Sense of Schuylar’s Passing Making Sense of Schuylar’s Passing For those who loved Schuylar Barnes, watching her fight cancer was excruciating. She wasn’t just fighting for lif… Read Post
06.29.2022 – A broken world – 11 Comments on Gret Glyer Was a World Changer Gret Glyer Was a World Changer When, one day, they make the movie about his life, you’ll perhaps get a sense of its impact. Gret didn’t just hav… Read Post
06.23.2022 – Leadership – 2 Comments on How Can I Grow as a Leader? How Can I Grow as a Leader? A student asked me, “What leadership books changed your life?” I’ve read so many, but I don’t know that any books … Read Post
06.16.2022 – My Life – 5 Comments on When I Fasted 42 Days When I Fasted 42 Days It was 2006. Andrew Shearman had spoken to the AIM staff retreat the previous year. It had felt like we were on t… Read Post
06.07.2022 – A broken world – 6 Comments on Today the World’s Mess Showed Up in Our Neighborhood Today the World’s Mess Showed Up in Our Neighborhood What a crazy world. My son Seth and daughter Estie were driving home and the entire neighborhood was blocked by p… Read Post
05.10.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 2 Comments on Relief Team Narrowly Avoids Missile in Ukraine Relief Team Narrowly Avoids Missile in Ukraine I’ve been part of a team getting aid to refugees and displaced Ukrainians. We try and get food to the east of Ukr… Read Post
04.29.2022 – Finding your call – 7 Comments on 4 Opportunities Young People Deserve 4 Opportunities Young People Deserve We Christians wonder why so many young people are leaving the faith and struggling. We point our finger at media and… Read Post
04.21.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment on Ukrainian Mom Writes Her Daughter’s Name on Her Back Ukrainian Mom Writes Her Daughter’s Name on Her Back I couldn’t get this photo out of my mind – it speaks of a mother’s love & heartbreak. So I wrote a poem about… Read Post
04.14.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 2 Comments on How World Race Partners to Help Ukraine How World Race Partners to Help Ukraine When Nick Lam went on the World Race, he had no idea how it would change him. Yesterday he drove a van that took a … Read Post
04.01.2022 – Fighting your enemy – 4 Comments on Are you being targeted by evil today? Are you being targeted by evil today? Many Christians no longer believe that there is a personal evil that is seeking to destroy the works of God and the c… Read Post
03.18.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 6 Comments on The Ukraine War is Personal – It’s Time to Respond The Ukraine War is Personal – It’s Time to Respond The war in Ukraine is personal for me. 22 years ago, my sister and her husband flew to Ukraine to adopt my nephew T… Read Post
03.03.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 3 Comments on What Courage Looks Like What Courage Looks Like Allina Robe is a World Racer whose life and pursuit of her calling shows us what courage looks like. Three years … Read Post
02.22.2022 – My Life – 12 Comments on What My Dog Has Taught Me What My Dog Has Taught Me My dog Asha is the best dog ever – she has so many friends. But she is 12 now – what is that 84 in dog years? Tho… Read Post
02.17.2022 – My Life – 11 Comments on My poem about my relationship with my father My poem about my relationship with my father One of the hardest things I ever had to do was to help my father to die. We were not close for much of … Read Post
01.15.2022 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 9 Comments on How I Learned to Beat Burnout How I Learned to Beat Burnout Today I’m flying to the Dominican Republic, a place where I’ve experienced abundant life as a young man pursuing a dr… Read Post
01.06.2022 – Living Free – 16 Comments on Some People Will Die Hiding Their Pearls Some People Will Die Hiding Their Pearls Britt Baker is a Millennial who has a burden for the Boomer generation. She was standing in front of a group of us … Read Post
01.02.2022 – Identity issues – 3 Comments on Come Home to Your True Self in 2022 Come Home to Your True Self in 2022 So many of us have felt estranged in the last two years – estranged from ourselves and from some of those we’ve been … Read Post
12.21.2021 – Lordship – 4 Comments on How Did Jesus Walk? Here are 10 Ways How Did Jesus Walk? Here are 10 Ways For much of my adult life I’ve tried to understand how Jesus trained his disciples. It didn’t look anything like the … Read Post
12.14.2021 – Discipling – 9 Comments on Here’s the Hill I Would Die On Here’s the Hill I Would Die On We have a mental health crisis and people are looking for answers. Are there any? Living in this lockdown worl… Read Post
12.09.2021 – Story telling – 7 Comments on Beauty for Ashes Goes to Italy Beauty for Ashes Goes to Italy Having been raised as a small boy in the picturesque Italian village of Corrubbio, just outside of Ve… Read Post
11.30.2021 – My Life, Writing Blogs and Books – 6 Comments on Don’t Despise Small Beginnings Don’t Despise Small Beginnings I had seen the power of microcredit working with refugees and those caught in a cycle of poverty in Indonesia. Sm… Read Post
11.18.2021 – World Race – 35 Comments on When God Said, ‘Scale The World Race For a Movement’ When God Said, ‘Scale The World Race For a Movement’ I was on a morning run in Swaziland in 2007. I have a practice of praying as I run. And sometimes I hear what I s… Read Post
