I believe in risk. It's an essential part of good parenting. I don't fully understand why, but this lesson is lost on most Christian parents I've know...
David Hogan looks the part of the simple missionary from Louisiana he has been for years (to Indians in the hinterlands of Mexico). He believed tha...
This afternoon I got a call from one of our leaders who discovered that one of the participants on his trip was “seriously suicidal” and had been ...
There are no great answers when tragedy hits. As a parent of a child who has been suddenly killed, you’re left sifting through the memories hopi...
Jesus called us to be radicals resisting a flawed religious order. It was flawed in his day and in many quarters, it is still in need of reform today....
I was reading my favorite devotional book today and saw this great thought: If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper...
I was sitting at a bar ordering lunch at a restaurant in a small airport in Texas when the lady behind the counter accosted me: “Whaddya want?” ...
My friend Betty wrote me the following: “I listened to a sermon tape a while back that was part of a parenting series. Part of one tape addressed...
Tony Sheng chimed in on my last blog - so I checked out his blog. That's what we bloggers do. He points to another blog that gives eight lessons f...
So much of what we do is half-hearted. Our parenting is often half-hearted. We’re so busy with other things that we don’t really give our children...
