Ron Walborn tells the following story. I was at the grocery store, checking out when the people behind me accosted me. "Excuse me, are...
I believe in taking risks. When a risk has been prayed over and is God-directed, it is a form of faith. Here's an example: This past week I was on ...
Here's a great story from Bob Logan's book on church planting movements that I pulled off Steve Addison's blog. Sure, here is the text with paragra...
The disciples asked Jesus, "Why do you tell stories?" He answered, "I tell stories to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight."...
The media is a neutral thing, neither good nor bad - it's just raw technology. The problem is that because it is so often used in negative ways, one n...
The last two day's blogs have explored how we inadvertently mistake stewardship for ownership when we are stewards of something for a long time. Jesus...
In yesterday's blog, I unwrapped the subject of "the slow poison of a same place." It's a phenomenon whereby we become presumptuous about ownership o...
We just visited our friends Mike and Terri Nicholaou in Virginia. They have a neighbor lady with an attitude who presides over her section of the neig...
When I was in Cuba in 1995, I met Ramon Lopez, who was a revolutionary leader with Castro. He and his wife got into the ministry because of the...
We're in Charlottesville, VA at the 20th year reunion of our business school. It's an occasion for reminiscing. Arriving at the reception last night m...
