Few Americans have gone on short-term missions
The following is an excerpt from a recent study done by the Barna Group, about why, despite their impact, only a minority of church-goers go on them: ...
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The following is an excerpt from a recent study done by the Barna Group, about why, despite their impact, only a minority of church-goers go on them: ...
Karen and I just returned from a week-long ministry trip to the other side of the world. It was exhausting and we're a little spent. It's at times lik...
Flying with Karen today to speak at the Youth Specialties Conference in Sacramento. If any of you blog readers are out there, let me know - I'd like...
From Seth Godin: A journalist asked me, "Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis XIV did in his day. So why are so many peopl...
We took off from the Phnom Penh airport and as I write this we're on a Korean Air 747 somewhere over the north Pacific. We spent four intense days deb...
A lot of us have read the Ephesians 6 passage about the armor of God, but we've never really put it on. We've never gotten it dirty or had to depend o...
Human beings are communal creatures. You need a context. You need people who get you and love you, warts and all. You need a tribe of people who sha...
It was almost two weeks ago that I posted a call to action to help clean up the areas that Hurricane Ike had devastated. This past week, we distribute...
I don't know much about this group in the video below, but I like the fact that they have decided to do something about an issue that we are large...
We're over here on the other side of the world now. We'll be debriefing our team from its experience living above a brothel in Viet Nam. They've s...