Gabe Landes is finishing up another round of men’s blog discipleship focused on learning listening prayer. It’s been a great time of growth for all. Gabe reports, “Some of these guys are like heat-seeking missiles, relentlessly determined to hear his voice and walk in his power in a way they’ve never experienced. I love it! […]
You can only go so far discipling people on the internet. You have to get together in the flesh periodically to hear what God’s saying and go to the next step. That’s why I want to invite you on our next Man Hike Oct 1-4 in NH. Our last hike in Colorado was awesome – […]
This is the 20th year since I started Adventures In Missions. It’s been quite a trip. I’m not the same guy I was when, I carved out a little office in our garage. What I didn’t know about life and especially life in the kingdom was a lot! God has been patient in shaping […]
I started AIM begrudgingly almost, having just experienced a messy departure from another ministry. God and I were barely on speaking terms and life on the home front was extremely difficult. Karen was pregnant with our fifth child. We had no insurance and nobody to pay me a salary. I wasn’t at all sure that […]
Get a Free eBook: Do you want to grow closer to God in your prayer times? I’ve written a free guide called The Three Day Listening Prayer Devotional and I’d love for you to download it. Click here to download the free devotional. I was looking for a way to thank you, my loyal blog readers, for living […]
Here’s a guide, a one-stop shop , to what’s going on in Lakeland, Florida. Some are calling it the the beginnings of a global revival; others say it’s a farce. I find it interesting how quickly some people rush to judgment about something that many report is bearing good fruit and that God may be […]
This is the last week to apply for the next World Race squad that is launching in July. God has really blessed this program with great Racers, coaches, and a fruitful ministry. We’re expecting this year to double last year’s 100+ participants; it’s still very new, but it’s growing exponentially. We’re doing our best to […]
Discipleship is a term that has grown tired and shopworn in the last 25 years. I’ve tried to replace it in my vocabulary with something not so ’80’s-sounding, but perhaps what we need to do is just give it a fresh definition: Waking up someone to their identity and role in the kingdom of God. […]
Yesterday I wrote a blog describing how a year and a half ago, God spoke to me about his heart for the orphans and my responsibility to help care for them. It was deeply personal and convicting. Seven people responded to the blog and together, maybe we can help a few orphans. For those who […]
I spent the first part of my career in ministry feeling burnt-out, aggravated, and bitter. I realized that in all of my busyness of doing things for God, I was neglecting time with him. I had never really learned about intimacy. One of AIM’s core teachings for any missionary that we send out is “listening […]
Get a Free eBook: Do you want to grow closer to God in your prayer times? I’ve written a free guide called The Three Day Listening Prayer Devotional and I’d love for you to download it. Click here to download the free devotional. I got an email from a blog reader named Jesse yesterday. Who hasn’t felt as she […]
Get a Free eBook: Do you want to grow closer to God in your prayer times? I’ve written a free guide called The Three Day Listening Prayer Devotional and I’d love for you to download it. Click here to download the free devotional. 2 Corinthians 5:7 tells us “We live by faith, not by sight.” In other words, we […]
We’re in Charlottesville, VA at the 20th year reunion of our business school. It’s an occasion for reminiscing. Arriving at the reception last night made me think thoughts like, “How will I ever explain to these people what I do?” So I talk about changing lives or African orphans or prayer and, sure enough, my […]
Here’s what I wrote to our 4000 participants who spent a week trying to help rebuild New Orleans this past year: Many people look at their missions project to New Orleans and they see hammers and saws. They see the devastation that Katrina wrought and they want to focus on the obvious physical needs that […]
Here’s another excerpt from my book, The Art of Listening Prayer: Evangelical Christians claim to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Yet how many actually do have a relationship with him that is personal? Relationships involve give and take, mutual interaction and dialogue. Marriages that lack this grow stale. If I relate to my […]
Yesterday I shared an excerpt from my book, The Art of Listening Prayer; today, I share another excerpt: Growing up in America isn’t easy; we’re a nation of skeptics. It’s easier to take potshots at something than it is to embrace it. We’ve been disappointed so many times, seen so many promises come to nothing. […]
“We are seeing the kingdom advance on a number of fronts. We are reminding the Church of what it means to minister based on listening prayer, and what it means to disciple as Jesus did in our contemporary culture and in other cultures around the world. One of the key reasons, I believe, that we’ve […]
One of the things you’ve got to love about Jesus is the pragmatic way that he taught. His parables took spiritual principles and made them practical. It gave his disciples something to talk about. I asked myself, “What would the modern day equivalent of that practice be?” I came up with an answer and, with […]
If you’re a youth pastor, you have to wonder, “How do we disciple young people like Jesus did in today’s society?” The answer is, you can’t; our culture is set up to fight you tooth and nail for time and it militates against risk and radical behavior, so youth pastors find themselves constantly hemmed in […]
In “Braveheart,” the English descend on the tiny highland village that William Wallace happens to live in and havoc ensues. Something like that happened to David and his men as well. They were away from their encampment at Ziklag, and when they returned, discovered that “the Amalekites had raided Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and […]
On any given short-term mission project, two roles must be fulfilled. Because a lot of leaders have never been trained in either of these roles, they rarely are performed well. Here are the job descriptions I give to my project leaders: Spiritual Director Provides spiritual direction for the trip Ensures that our project mission and […]
I’ve cleared the following report with my cyber-disciples (so called because we transacted everything by email). So, I’m maintaining the confidentiality that is so important in these relationships. I took on eight of them, four I knew and four strangers. My commitment was to check in with them weekly, to pray for them and to […]
This morning I was struggling with a relationship. The relationship comes with complications that are bothering me. And I want to take action. Instead I took it to God in listening prayer. I asked him the question, “What do I do about this relationship?” God said, “Wait it out.” Ugh. Not what I wanted to […]
Prayer is just you communicating with God. You shouldn’t need anything to help you, but if you’re stuck in neutral, the fact is you do – a little help would be nice. Here are some tools that can help. If you’ve got ideas, add them. 1. Begin with your Bible. Try reading parts of Scripture […]