A broken world

Sometimes life doesn’t seem to make sense. Why do bad things happen to good people? And how do we cope in the aftermath? God sees our pain and wants to heal us, but sometimes it doesn’t seem that way. The blogs in this section help shine some light in places that seem discouragingly dark.

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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 have ideas – he made them happen. He didn’t j…

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 police cars, ambulances and firetrucks. …

Responding to the Crisis: Boomer Apologies

This crisis didn’t just happen. We Boomers built a fragile world that was ripe for a catastrophe like this and we need to take responsibility. Five years ago…

Fighting the Virus Around the World

When your own life has changed so much and you are feeling poor, it’s easy to stay focused there. But the whole world is coping with the virus now. In many…

Here’s How to Encourage Frontline ICU Nurses

That’s my daughter, Estie, in full battle garb this week in the photo above. Every day when she goes to work, she and other nurses are fighting this …

Courage & Prudence in Wartime

We are now in a wartime footing in most of the country. Most of us have no idea how to live life there. The things that worked before no longer work. CO…

02 October 2018

The Upside of Brokenness

In America, we design for obsolescence and throw away broken things. It costs more to fix stuff than it does to just get it new. We treat people that way too…

How To Stop A Mob In It’s Tracks

Kailey Mattarella is a racer in India. She shared this story. I probably wouldn’t have responded as she did, but I love her response. How would you respond…

18 November 2017

Working on Problems that Matter

We all work on problems, but how many of them really matter? That is to say, a problem that matters to God. Many of us have problems that don’t matter…

02 September 2017

The Gift of Pain

For those coping with pain, The Gift of Pain by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancy is an excellent book. Brand and Yancey conclude that we need…

Bill Gates Advice to Graduates: Help the Poor

We are approaching a season of graduations. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, had the chance to share his best advice at the school he dropped out …

An Addict’s Prayer

One third of Americans were prescribed pain killers last year. One in seven struggled with an alcohol problem. An opioid addiction epidemic is killing thou…

How Should Christians Respond to Terrorists in Places Like Istanbul?

Terrorists are showing up with new ways to fill us with fear every day. Bombs and beheadings and planes and trucks. We can’t help feeling sick when we see …

Do I Help or Stay Safe?

Our team of World Racers were scheduled to fly from India to Nepal and missed the earthquake by a day. World Race staff and parents were relieved – th…

Helping Nepal

Yesterday another powerful earthquake hit Nepal. This one registered a 7.3 on the Richter Scale. World Race leader Dusty Dills said this about it: “It was l…

13 January 2015

Brokenness and Trust

Have you ever felt as though you are more messed up inside than other people? The truth is, we’re all messed up. All of us are broken in ways that w…

16 September 2014

3 Truths About Brokenness

I was talking with a life coach last week. He probed broken areas of my life that I had dealt with a long time ago. I’m a grown man in my 50’s, yet when my c…

Those Jesus Doesn’t Save

We know Jesus as Savior, but what do we really understand about saving? For example, consider the Titanic. When the Titanic sank, the people in the wa…

Where is God When I’m in Pain?

As a leader, sometimes I’m called upon to inflict pain. I have to make decisions that hurt people in order to achieve some larger purpose. The danger in doin…

16 November 2013

Getting Help to Typhoon Victims

Liz Ogletree is working to help get aid to those needing it in the Philippines. She just wrote a blog post and a pilot read it and responded: “I am a Navy H…

15 November 2013

Please Help the Philippines!

Adventures has staff and volunteers on the ground in the Philippines. They are helping mobilize people and resources to help. Liz Ogletree …

Recovering From a Broken Heart

So many of my friends are struggling with some aspect of brokenness. Some are dealing with a sadness so profound, it’s really a broken heart that they’re ten…

Jesus’ promises about pain

I'm returning from two weeks in Kenya. One night we went to sleep to the sounds of a torrential downpour. In the morning we woke to the news that t…

21 February 2013

The Horror of Your Child’s Overdose

Usually when we get wrecked, the implication is that it's a good thing. But what about when it's the most horrible thing imaginable? Earlier this …

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