Feeling Strange This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time to return home. But what do you do if your idea of home has changed? I remember at 18 feeling this way. I had left for colle...
Short-term missions
Why Do Short-Term Missions?
I was 29 and was leading my first short-term mission (STM). When we stepped off the buses, we were immediately surrounded by a cloud of mosquitoes. Sw...
A broken world
Getting Help to Typhoon Victims
Liz Ogletree is working to help get aid to those needing it in the Philippines. She just wrote a blog post and a pilot read it and responded: "I am a...
A broken world
Please Help the Philippines!
Adventures has staff and volunteers on the ground in the Philippines. They are helping mobilize people and resources to help. Liz Og...
Comfort and Pain
How To Write a Grief Journal
I received an email from a blog reader who said: "You posted an article about grief back in 2007. You made reference to a grief journal. I find myse...
World Race
President Bush Talks About the World Race
Last week, former President Bush took a couple of minutes to share the heroic example of World Racer Dave Smith in a speech he gave in Dallas. Dave s...
Dreaming
When Your Dreams Go Viral
Ruth Wilson trusted God with her dream of being a writer and one day her dream went viral. I wonder if Ruth ever believed it was possible. My guess is...
Lordship
7 Hard Things About Jesus' Method
One of the hardest things about being a Christian is to try and do what Jesus did. He invested in people in ways that look counter-cultural to us. How...
Church
The Role of Pastor is Broken
We love our pastors - they are there to marry and bury and counsel us. Yet we also put too much on them and are oblivious to their pain. Here are some...
Kingdom Reality
The Long View
“Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord." Ps.102:18 In light of this ve...
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