Learning to Communicate is Cross-Cultural Training
As a 15-year-old, I often wondered how I could prepare to become a cross-cultural worker. That was my life goal, but I wasn’t sure how to successfully get myself ready. I heard of one famous...
Christmas, The Soul-Winner’s Opportunity
Like many traditions surrounding Christmas, the month of Advent has been skewed and cheapened by meaningless calendars and empty traditions. But some believers are still able to observe the Advent...
Right? Wrong? Or Different?
Have you ever experienced something so far from what you were used to that you didn’t know how to respond? We all have a circle built around us that we call our comfort zone. We function best within...
Don’t Flee Like a Bird
Does the coming year scare you? Do you find yourself wondering how you could escape if things get a lot worse? If so, you’re in good company. Many (including myself) have been watching with horrid...
The Sanctity of Rest
This summer, I spent a week at rest a full ten hours away from my prolific bean patch. We went to Indiana to spend a rare visit with my parents. While there, I enrolled my children in swimming...
Motivated
I grew up in Oklahoma. Although we don't live there anymore, we still have a property with a rental cabin on it. Inevitably, every time I go down there it is jam-packed with work. We got running...
The Gospel Goes Out Through Everyone
“Gospel-sharing is more for people with a specific calling. My gift isn’t evangelism.” Ever heard this idea? I have, and I think it’s an unfortunate mistake. “But,” they say, “the command to...
Book Review: Tactics
Last year, I and a friend led an apologetics training weekend for a group of young people from my church. It turned out to be a really beautiful time of discussion, teaching, reading, and...
Change
Change. It’s something I deal with a lot. I think about it. I want to see it. Sometimes I fear it. Often I pray: “God, change me.” If everything were my way, I would be spending some alone-time. I...
Two Ways to Love My Neighbor as Myself (Part 2)
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Gal 5:14, ESV). On a warm day at the beginning of June, with the neighborhood dogs barking incessantly, I...