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,...
PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES—Last weekend, Deborah and I drove to San Fernando, Pampanga, for our Central Luzon Discipleship 2013 conference. We now have 11 Victory churches in the region. About 1,000 Victory Group leaders attended the conference. I wish you could have been...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. Two paths. Robert Frost wrote about them, and Kid President pep talked about them. (“Not cool Robert Frost!”) But what are the two paths? All leaders have two...
The Bible. I watched it last night on History Channel. I read it this morning in my favorite chair, drinking my favorite hot tea. Today’s reading was about a young orphan from a despised ethnic minority who became one of the most influential leaders in ancient Iran....