5 Key Lessons I’ve Learned From The Latest Mission Trip

It’s been a few days since we’ve come back from Lebanon after an extremely fruitful week of ministering with the Syrian refugees. I would like to give you an update via 5 key lessons I’ve learned from this last mission trip:

Now that we know

Ignorance is bliss – until you’re no longer ignorant.
I walk into a patient’s room. The chart says it’s a 3 year old girl with a rash. I check the rash and notice a bruise in an unusual area.

Why I left Harvest Bible Chapel

So many people have recently asked me why I left Harvest Bible Chapel when I did.
I attended Harvest Bible Chapel for over 8 years and served as the Women’s Ministry Director at the Rolling Meadows campus for three of those years.

To My Black Brothers and Sisters

I love you.

I am for you.

And I hurt deeply with you this morning.

This is not the first time I have felt this way, but I realize I might not have been as clear and vocal with you about it before.

Brothers, We Are Not Politicians.

A long time ago John Piper wrote a fabulous book called “Brothers, we are not professionals” , a series of essays to pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.

Can Wonder Woman Save the World?

You ever try to run your world?

And quickly realize you can’t. You’re a complete failure at it. You can’t even get the basics right – or at least that’s my story.

For all you list makers out there: why the list must go.

I am a list maker.

I love everything about the list.

I love crossing things off and seeing the list shrink.

I love the organization of the list and the visual management of my life on paper.

13 Reasons Why I Hate 13 Reasons Why

I hope you never watch the show. I managed a whole 10 minutes before I shut it off and wish I hadn’t wasted the time.

Here are 13 reasons why I hate 13 reasons why so much:

What will awaken the American Church?

Nothing will awaken us to the state of the American Church like spending a week with Christians on the other side of the world.

I met a Lebanese man named Adel last week.

How to be a Christian Speaker

More than any other question I get asked is this one:

“How do I become a Christian speaker?”

While the question is meant to be flattering at first, it’s come up enough to beg an answer. But perhaps I should start with the obvious: