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Discipleship
Visible and Invisible Church Growth
While in a strategic planning meeting with 30 South Africa pastors, I received the following tweet from Mark Zschech: Plants grow in two opposite...
Speaking the Truth in Love
Relationships are bridges. Truth is weighty. The heavier the truth, the stronger the bridge (relationship) must be to transport the truth without a...
Fasting, Hunger Strikes & the Mystery of the Empty Stomach
Like thousands of others around the world, I’m starting 2010 with a season of prayer, fasting, and consecration. Fortunately for me, our whole...
Leadership
Removing God from Thanksgiving Day
When our three sons were small, Deborah and I decided that we would not tolerate an entitlement attitude in our home. Our remedy? Teach our kids to...
When All You Have Is Not Enough
A mob of hungry people. Seven biscuits. A couple of sardines. That’s not even almost enough food. But that’s all they had. What do you do when all...
The Lost Art of Respect & Honor
I get to work with some amazing people. I’m now in Yokohama, Japan meeting with a dozen church planters and missionaries who are serving all over...
Family
Does God Really Forgive and Forget?
It was Saturday night and James, my eight-year-old, was completing his daily ritual of writing in his journal before bedtime. His brothers were...
Hard Work and the Grace of God
Several years ago after “talent day” at Faith Academy, a couple of moms told Deborah and I how impressed they were with one of our son’s piano...
The Problem with Preacher’s Kids
“Why are you misbehaving in my class? You should not act like this since your father is a pastor.” Comments like this, from the mouths of frustrated...
Books
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