Note: I wrote this blog in the Tokyo airport on my Manila to Nashville flight a couple of days ago, but was not able to post until now. My alarm rang at 3:30 this morning. I’m not a morning person. Deborah is. Most mornings I stagger around like a cranky zombie. She...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES—Last night Deborah and I had dinner at the new home of some old friends. Before dinner, we got the grand tour. Wow! What a tour. We wanted to move into their guest room. Their beautiful new home was built by a team that included general...
EN2013. What a conference! What a week! Thousands of pastors, church leaders, missionaries, church planters, and campus ministers from fifty-two nations gathered in Orlando to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Every Nation Churches & Ministries. Our conference had...
Former NBA great Allen Iverson is famous for “talking about practice,” but he was not the first person to talk about it. Here’s what Jesus said about practice. 47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into PRACTICE, I will show you what they...
It’s summer, and once again I have completely failed to live up to my New Year’s resolution. I had good intentions, but we all know where that paved road leads. Since my three-blogs-a-week resolution didn’t really work out, I’m downgrading it to three blogs per...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES—What a week! Deborah and I attended Ignite 2013 along with over 9,000 Filipino students plus hundreds of students and Every Nation campus missionaries from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan, Timor-Leste,...
