Things I’m Excited About

Healing is real. Here’s a story about it. As I’ve reviewed 18 years of God working through racers and the World Race, I came across this story from 2007 and thought I should share it with you. I…

It was 1995, I took a team of about 40 young people from Omaha to Tampico, Mexico on a mission project. We arrived well past midnight. It was a hot night and the church was still up waiting to gre…

It’s easy to be a skeptic in America. But as Elina Landin reports, seeing is believing. She witnessed God heal her teammate. Here is her report. The first day we got to Guatemala, I witnessed a mi…

For 29 years Castro’s communist regime Cuba shut down religion.  The worst region was Matanza. But in 1988, a great revival came to a small town called Madruga. From there it spread through Cuba. T…

If you have gone through a dry season lately – a time where you haven’t seen God, then you need to hear the story of Dave and Chris Carlson and God’s amazing power to heal even the worst of diseas…

Climbing Everest is not a part of the World Race. But we encourage Racers to find adventure wherever they go. One team took advantage of their time in Nepal by hiking to Everest Base Camp. But, as…

This is a new format for the blog. The first format change in 17 years! What do you think? I’ve been thinking about “why do I write?” and “what have I written?” I began writing when I was young. Since high school, I’ve kept a journal. And as a 23 year-old working overseas, I wrote my first boo…

Imagine you’re leading a department in a business. But you know that your tech stack is outmoded. You need to upgrade. How do you know what investment will give you the highest ROI? This is the sort of problem that needs a capital budget. Capital budgets help you assess the value of discounte…

Ten years ago I released The Art of Listening Prayer: Hearing God’s Voice Amidst Life’s Noise, a 26-day devotional that introduced the basics of recognizing and listening to the voice of God. (Get it here.) It was at that time I, myself discovered and experienced this principle in my own life. Si…

When we started the World Race in 2006, we sensed that we were onto something. As the three vans left Matamoros for Chiapas and ports south, who knew what adventures lay ahead? Five years later, it’s become a phenomenon. We expect to take close to 600 racers around the world in 2012. A generatio…

A number of years ago I wrote a book that I’ve never published. It’s called “Revolution of the Broken Heart.” It’s a book of stories about how God breaks our heart to make it look more like his own heart.I’ve studied how he does it in so many people over the years. It’s usually a confusing and f…