10.15.2008 – Spiritual Formation – 6 Comments on How do you help a disciple grow? How do you help a disciple grow? How do Jesus followers grow? For those of us who have taken Jesus at his words and want to follow through on his fina… Read Post
10.14.2008 – Living Free – 12 Comments on It’s not about right & wrong, but life & death It’s not about right & wrong, but life & death Think about the things in your life that bring life: encouragement singing poetry … Read Post
10.13.2008 – A broken world – 4 Comments on How do you respond to beggars? How do you respond to beggars? How do you respond to panhandlers and beggars? Do they represent an interruption and an inconvenience in your day? … Read Post
10.12.2008 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 5 Comments on Giving roses to prostitutes Giving roses to prostitutes Karen and I are turning in after a long day out here in California. What a crazy week! We returned from Cambodia on M… Read Post
10.11.2008 – Short-term missions – 5 Comments on Few Americans have gone on short-term missions Few Americans have gone on short-term missions The following is an excerpt from a recent study done by the Barna Group, about why, despite their impact, only a mino… Read Post
10.10.2008 – Kingdom Reality – 5 Comments on Choose to be a life source Choose to be a life source Karen and I just returned from a week-long ministry trip to the other side of the world. It was exhausting and we’re … Read Post
10.09.2008 – My Life – 10 Comments on You can change the world! You can change the world! Flying with Karen today to speak at the Youth Specialties Conference in Sacramento. If any of you blog readers are o… Read Post
10.08.2008 – Living Free – 8 Comments on Why are you unhappy? Why are you unhappy? From Seth Godin: A journalist asked me, “Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis XIV did in … Read Post
10.07.2008 – Short-term missions – 9 Comments on Debriefing our World Race team Debriefing our World Race team We took off from the Phnom Penh airport and as I write this we’re on a Korean Air 747 somewhere over the north Pacifi… Read Post
10.06.2008 – Radical Living – 3 Comments on Get your armor dirty Get your armor dirty A lot of us have read the Ephesians 6 passage about the armor of God, but we’ve never really put it on. We’ve never g… Read Post
10.05.2008 – 42nd Generation – 10 Comments on Decide to be a part of a tribe Decide to be a part of a tribe Human beings are communal creatures. You need a context. You need people who get you and love you, warts and all. Yo… Read Post
10.04.2008 – Short-term missions – 1 Comment on Why we didn’t ask for money for Ike Why we didn’t ask for money for Ike It was almost two weeks ago that I posted a call to action to help clean up the areas that Hurricane Ike had devastat… Read Post
10.03.2008 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 3 Comments on A campaign against human trafficking A campaign against human trafficking I don’t know much about this group in the video below, but I like the fact that they have decided to do something… Read Post
10.02.2008 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 3 Comments on Southeast Asia & the sex trade Southeast Asia & the sex trade We’re over here on the other side of the world now. We’ll be debriefing our team from its experience living above a … Read Post
10.01.2008 – Cambodia – 5 Comments on Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected Karen and I are at an airport lounge in Seoul and headed to Cambodia today to debrief our World Race team. Feeling s… Read Post
09.30.2008 – Better Living – 4 Comments on A bear market, but a bull market on spirituality A bear market, but a bull market on spirituality How are you investors doing after today’s killing on Wall St.? I was sitting on my porch this evening and felt com… Read Post
09.29.2008 – Poverty – 4 Comments on God in the garbage dump God in the garbage dump I had brought my running shoes to Mexico. Behind our mission site director’s house is a giant trash heap – all the ga… Read Post
09.28.2008 – Prayer – 3 Comments on More Sunday prayers – last week of September More Sunday prayers – last week of September Our heartfelt prayers for consolation go out to Cody’s wife and family He passed away early Monday morning. This link… Read Post
09.27.2008 – Mobilization – 4 Comments on Are you asleep, but not dreaming? Are you asleep, but not dreaming? This blog by World Racer Kim Daniels sums up my dreams for a generation: Before I came on The World Race, I … Read Post
09.26.2008 – My Life – 9 Comments on My Dad, Afghanistan & a sense of duty My Dad, Afghanistan & a sense of duty Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInt… Read Post
09.25.2008 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 15 Comments on Join us on a vision trip to Swaziland! Join us on a vision trip to Swaziland! This January 28 through February 4 join Karen and myself, plus Gary and Lisa Black, on a life-changing vision trip to… Read Post
09.24.2008 – Living Free – 17 Comments on Please, live in the present Please, live in the present My daughter Estie sent me the following quote from The Shack. My own opinion, incidentally, of those who have… Read Post
09.23.2008 – Culture and Faith – 28 Comments on People don’t reject Jesus – just Christians People don’t reject Jesus – just Christians People don’t usually reject Jesus – they reject the people who say they are following him. When you look at some Chr… Read Post
09.22.2008 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 8 Comments on The price of innocence in Viet Nam is $1.25 The price of innocence in Viet Nam is $1.25 One of the things that I love about this blog is the way that you blog readers help one another. For example, this… Read Post
