“Everyone” I talk to this year says Christmas is a time for family. Unfortunately ours won’t make it in time this year. Neither will the family of my missionary friends who emailed me from across the pond. Nor will the families of some of the best young leaders I know in Asia or Africa.
What is “everyone” talking about? Continue reading
Christmas is coming (crazy fast) and all around the world millions of people will celebrate the birth of a little baby named Jesus. At least that’s what I thought was his name. Turns out the prophet Isaiah was trying to name him over 700 years before he was even born!
How many babies do you know who had that happen to them? Continue reading
Bruce Springsteen said that a song requires three things: a lyric, a melody and a 3rd element. “Unless you have that and touch that, you have not created something special, something real, something lasting.” (in a live interview with Elvis Costello on Spectacle April 2010).
What is that 3rd element missing in most songs? Continue reading
We’ve all been to that convention. You know the one where you absolutely knew your life would forever be changed.
Then you went home. Continue reading
Tears flowed down his cheeks as the pastor opened the service. He announced that, as a church, they had chosen to complete the fund raising needs for a recent MB Mission global church planting team.
I listened in awe as the pastor explained to all in attendance their role in reaching the unreached. Here before them was an opportunity to participate in the God’s mission story on the other side of the globe in one of the of neediest countries. Continue reading
It’s been a week of little sleep. One of our kids is struggling through a time of many anxieties and fears. Quite a journey. Then a message from a friend whose high school was rocked by suicide. Tragic.
So I listened to this song, a couple of times. Continue reading
Picture a police woman standing in an intersection; it’s her first day on the job. She’s nervous, the cars whizzing past. She sports the badge, the gun, and the training of a police officer but she doesn’t feel like it. As confused drivers block up the streets waiting for her direction, they start to honk and swear. 
In a panic, she calls her chief for help…he gives her three words. Continue reading