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validation

06.27.2010 – Identity issues – 8 Comments

Your need for validation

I love Seth Godin’s blog – I read it every day. He’s a marketer, but his world is bigger than marketing. He does so b…

missionary

06.26.2010 – Missions – 8 Comments

I’m a missionary – get out of my way!

*The Very Worst Missionary is a blog from Jamie Wright, a missionary wife and mom in Costa Rica. Missionaries have a…

not being a victim

06.25.2010 – Eswatini / Swaziland – No Comments

The NFL goes to our Swazi base

Dear Tony, George, & Cornell, Thanks for caring enough about the people of Swaziland to join Phil &amp…

Living a life

06.24.2010 – Amazing God Stories – 2 Comments

Living a life where miracles are normal

Jesus wants us to live lives that are no less dramatic and miracle-filled than his disciples. Our young missionaries …

Starting over after you crash & burn

06.23.2010 – Reaching Your Destiny – 17 Comments

Starting over after you crash & burn

What does it take to reach your destiny? I think it takes a white flag of surrender. You need to reach the end of you…

Little things sucking the life out of you

06.22.2010 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 8 Comments

Little things sucking the life out of you

I was picking ticks off of Whimsy tonight. Three small ones and two that had begun to grow. It was gross, but had to…

gospel

06.21.2010 – Spiritual Formation – 11 Comments

Jesus’ counterintuitive gospel

For most of my life, I’ve been trying to separate the Americanized Jesus I grew up with from the Jesus I keep reading…

My son tells parents

06.20.2010 – Parenting – 4 Comments

My son tells parents to ‘let ’em struggle’

My kids are grown up and in their 20’s, but the growing up part wasn’t easy. Karen and I had to let them go through a…

Questions to Ask in 2021

06.19.2010 – Leadership – 4 Comments

The secular-sacred dichotomy

I was talking to some businessmen tonight who faced messy situations in a business that had been run into the ground….

sex trade

06.18.2010 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 8 Comments

The sex trade is an abomination

It’s sickening to see 13 year-old girls recruited by their parents to become prostitutes. It’s disgusting that a cul…

activists

06.17.2010 – Courage – 6 Comments

We need more activists

Jesus was an activist. He stirred things up. He made people mad. He took on the existing social order. Following him …

bloom

06.16.2010 – Reaching Your Destiny – 10 Comments

Bloom where you’re planted

Some of you figure you’ve been dealt a pretty poor hand in life. Maybe you’ve got debts piling up, or you’ve had bad …

mission trip

06.15.2010 – Short-term missions – 16 Comments

Is it time to declare a mission trip moratorium?

Writing in Sojourners, Troy Jackson declared that it’s time to declare a moratorium on short-term mission trips. He m…

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06.14.2010 – Wounded healers – 4 Comments

Witness to horror

Jesus wants more of his followers to see the world’s pain, horrible though it may be. This is not a happy thing for m…

mask

06.13.2010 – Haiti – 1 Comment

When your house in ruins, what do you do?

Here’s a man who has a sad but wonderful story. His house collapsed, yet his wife and eight kids miraculously survive…

Awakening

06.12.2010 – World Race – 1 Comment

Join us for the Awakening

Many of you have already heard of The Awakening, a worship conference we do for World Racers in the field. Anyone on …

not being a victim

06.11.2010 – Reaching Your Destiny – 5 Comments

Decide to make a difference

Think about the parable of the lost sheep. The shepherd leaves 99 sheep to go looking for one. Every day you can p…

Questions to Ask in 2021

06.10.2010 – Amazing God Stories – 7 Comments

A healing in Haiti

Evansbord is being healed. This video shows more of the story. Here are some highlights from the earlier blog. E…

Who are you

06.09.2010 – Identity issues – 5 Comments

Who are you?

I was running through the neighborhood. Up ahead was a small boy playing by himself in a driveway. He stared at me in…

My son goes looking for Magdala

06.08.2010 – Orphans – 7 Comments

My son goes looking for Magdala

On my recent trip to Haiti, I wrote about a particular orphan girl named Magdala whom I’d met in an orphanage. Later,…

06.07.2010 – Identity issues – 7 Comments

The Culture of Narcissism

Interesting recent article in the New York Times. Any study that tries to quantify empathy needs to be taken wit…

thankfulness

06.06.2010 – Blog Community – 7 Comments

Cultivating the habit of thankfulness: Week #4

It’s been a few weeks since we did this as a blog community (see last one here) and I for one need it. I went a co…

mask

06.05.2010 – Culture and Faith – 28 Comments

5 ways Christians fail

Saw this article by John Shore on the Huffington Post – I’m copying half of it here. Helps us see and understand our …

Cambodian

06.04.2010 – Justice issues – 4 Comments

A Cambodian who refused to die

When I was 21, a senior in college, I read about the horror going on in Cambodia and I knew I needed to go over there…

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