09.21.2008 – Prayer – 6 Comments on Sunday prayer for the blog community Sunday prayer for the blog community For the last two Sundays we posted the names of those in this blog community who are fighting for life. I’ll post th… Read Post
09.20.2008 – Short-term missions – 8 Comments on Help clean up after hurricane Ike! Help clean up after hurricane Ike! I just got this report from Athol Barnes, an AIM staff member: The damage is very similar to Katrina and t… Read Post
09.19.2008 – How to Disciple – 12 Comments on Discipleship should take at least 3 years Discipleship should take at least 3 years Partly it’s our puritanical drive for efficiency. Partly it’s our microwaved McMuffin approach to life. We want to … Read Post
09.18.2008 – Parenting – 4 Comments on Young people, money, sex and power (pt. 2) Young people, money, sex and power (pt. 2) This is a continuation of my earlier blog. Sex I have four daughters of marriageable age. Having been an adolescen… Read Post
09.17.2008 – Parenting – 1 Comment on Young people, money, sex and power (pt. 1) Young people, money, sex and power (pt. 1) A big part of becoming an adult is learning how to deal with life’s three great temptations – money, sex, and power. … Read Post
09.16.2008 – Discipling – 11 Comments on Discipleship disqualifications Discipleship disqualifications How are you doing today, the day after the market lost 500 points and Greenspan said in effect, “this is the worst … Read Post
09.16.2008 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 17 Comments on My struggle to become a father My struggle to become a father Loving my own five kids came naturally to me. They had my DNA, were in my home and wanted my attention. We had affin… Read Post
09.15.2008 – Simplicity Liberates You – 12 Comments on Is the simple life possible in America? Is the simple life possible in America? A blog reader named Forest just posted a comment to this blog. I’d like to know if anyone has an answer for him. He… Read Post
09.15.2008 – Kingdom Reality – 8 Comments on The meltdown of Western civilization as we know it The meltdown of Western civilization as we know it It’s past midnight and I just got off the phone with a friend who has been very successful in business. He began the… Read Post
09.14.2008 – Prayer – 28 Comments on A Sunday prayer for those fighting for life A Sunday prayer for those fighting for life Last Sunday I put out a prayer request for Lambert and Cody, both of whom are waging a desperate battle for life. In… Read Post
09.13.2008 – Kingdom Reality – 4 Comments on Christianese – helpful labels or epithets? Christianese – helpful labels or epithets? Words have to convey the meaning we intend or they cease to work for us. So every now and then, we need to re-examin… Read Post
09.12.2008 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 4 Comments on The sex trade will break your heart The sex trade will break your heart The World Race team we coach just arrived in Thailand en route to Viet Nam and then Cambodia. One of the things th… Read Post
09.11.2008 – Church – 6 Comments on Your church needs these basics Your church needs these basics So you’re meeting regularly with a group of believers who call themselves “church.” But you can’t shake the sense tha… Read Post
09.10.2008 – Church – 17 Comments on Institutional church vs. community Institutional church vs. community In our community group, Amie Bokelman had surgery that left her incapacitated, yet with her little ones still running… Read Post
09.09.2008 – Living Free – 18 Comments on We are not called to a balanced life We are not called to a balanced life We’re too safe in America – too tepid. You can believe anything; just don’t believe it too strongly. According to B… Read Post
09.08.2008 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 18 Comments on Destitute nation’s king holds birthday extravaganza Destitute nation’s king holds birthday extravaganza One of the interesting things about Swaziland is how little the opinion of outsiders seems to mean to those in powe… Read Post
09.07.2008 – Prayer – 27 Comments on When you’re wrestling for your life When you’re wrestling for your life Here in Georgia the doctors have told our staff member Lambert Royal that his cancer is terminal. They’ve said the sa… Read Post
09.06.2008 – Abandon – 5 Comments on What abandon looks & feels like What abandon looks & feels like Here in America, with a standard of living that is better than 99% of the planet, we struggle to move from self-suffi… Read Post
09.05.2008 – Short-term missions – 2 Comments on Following up on your short-term trip Following up on your short-term trip Stephanie Fisk ministered in the garbage dumps of Nicaragua last year. It was one of the highlights of her year. Th… Read Post
09.04.2008 – Mobilization – 14 Comments on 10 commandments of blogging 10 commandments of blogging Over the last three years we’ve built the World Race into a phenomenon – a fast growing ministry that is waking up a … Read Post
09.03.2008 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 9 Comments on The Bowman family’s call to Africa The Bowman family’s call to Africa When God calls you to a place as remote and needy as Swaziland, you are going to want to hear him clearly. Such was … Read Post
09.02.2008 – Simplicity Liberates You – 28 Comments on Learning to be authentic in an artificial world Learning to be authentic in an artificial world I hate things that are artificial. I don’t like malls, scripted “reality TV,” Twinkies, or Paris Hilton. And anyone w… Read Post
09.01.2008 – A broken world – 3 Comments on Fear of storms in life Fear of storms in life Katrina was such a catastrophic event, leaving a whole city homeless, that three years later, New Orleans i… Read Post
08.31.2008 – Abandon – 3 Comments on How do I prepare for death? How do I prepare for death? A lot of death out there lately – have you noticed? How ironic that the guy who wrote 100 Things To Do Before You Di… Read Post
