God equips us with pain
As a younger man, I was fired twice and three times demoted. In my view, I'd performed well and was the victim of office politics. I stored up a lot o...
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As a younger man, I was fired twice and three times demoted. In my view, I'd performed well and was the victim of office politics. I stored up a lot o...
Today we hopped on a long flight to Asia. We have arrived and are deep into combating jet lag as I write this. It's 1:11 a.m. and the A/C isn't workin...
Why is it that Mondays are often the hardest day of the week? Maybe it's because you go from a place of rest to a place of activity, frustration and c...
One of the Christmas memories that our kids cherish the most was the memory of building an elaborate fort out of blankets and overturned chairs and fu...
God gives us a sense of identity by allowing us to experience rejection. If you want to live a secure life, endure persecution. God prepares us fo...
Joe Bunting wrote a blog post about scars. He quoted Stephen King: "The only requirement to be a writer, is the ability to remember every scar." ...
The pain of jet lag isn't bad this morning. Two cups of coffee made the difference. My spirit responds: "Hallelujah!" The pain of doing the work to...
For the last 5+ years, the theme of this blog has been how we make friends with the discomfort Jesus wants to share with us for our own good and the k...
I was in a meeting the other day and we were talking about missions. Then a friend said this, "You can do Acts 1:8 or Acts 8:1 happens." I was fami...
I was reading through Genesis this morning. Amidst the genealogies, I noticed the stories - the stories of a few men and the way they responded to G...