Growing up, I was insecure. No quantity of compliments could counterbalance the personal deficiencies I felt. I was small for my age, had acne, didn't...
This is a continuation of yesterday's blog . Have you ever noticed how when you look at a picture of a group that you were in, you always first t...
Sarae Martin emailed me the following story that just happened to her. As I pulled into McDonalds, I saw a pile of suitcases, obviously those of a ...
This may be the worst airport nightmare story I've heard. World Race participant, Jennifer Smith, who was in the remote village of San Juan on Lake At...
The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is St...
Say what you want about "My Utmost For His Highest" or anything by C.S. Lewis. For my money, the best devotional writer of modern times (still alive a...
Part Six in a series on "How to minister." Continued from How to Minister: Touching Jesus the leper In our hypersensitive victim culture, we don't...
“He who dies with the most toys wins.” We say we don't believe this, but our lifestyles say otherwise. The lie is that it’s all a winnable...
Are short-term missions becoming faddish? That's a rhetorical question. The answer is: YES. I estimate that 75% of STMs are done poorly (that is, not ...
Yesterday's blog dealt with the faddishness that is undermining the credibility of many STMs. The point of the discussion is not, "stop doing them;" ...
