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.

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.

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.

I said the D word yesterday.

I don’t mean Dang, or Drat, or even Darn.

I mean the real D word.

There’s this guy I have a massive crush on.

We’re Facebook friends and, yeah, I stalk him from time to time.

Let’s say, theoretically speaking, that he came to Chicago and asked me out on a date.

What do you want in 2017?

Stop and think about it.

This year could turn out like all the others.