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.
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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.
Read More...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.
Read More...How the resurrection changes everything
A few months ago I was in the ER when we got a call about a 5 year old girl who was found face down in a pond of water.
Read More...For Those Who are Weary in Waiting
Weariness creeps up on us unawares – sort of like the flu. One minute we’re fine, the next we feel like death swarmed over us.
I finished speaking at a singles event last week when a woman with kind eyes came up to me.
Read More...Are You Looking for a Safe and Comfortable Life?
I was invited to go on Moody Radio last week to participate in Share 2017. Frankly, I was dreading it.
See, this year, I’d decided that I wouldn’t give. I even wrote it down in my journal. And nothing was going to change that.
Read More...What you can do about the Syrian refugee crisis
Does your brain ever go numb because of the size of the problem you’re facing?
Mine does.
And when it does, I’m tempted to mentally check out – to catch up on my ever growing Netflix queue instead since that is a massive problem I know I can manage.
Read More...How to Influence People Deeply
There is something awesome that happens in my soul when someone prays for me.
My friend Bob calls to invite me to something.
Read More...A Letter to my Christian Friends in the West
My dear fellow western Christian,
We are finally coming of age.
After hundreds of years of relative comfort, after generations of being well thought of and feeling culturally accepted and looked favorably upon
Read More...Christians and politics
Politics.
Some love it.
Some love to hate it.
What would you do if I told you Jesus modeled an approach to politics that we need to embrace?
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