So I sat down for lunch today at a table with some folks I hadn’t met yet – there’s only about 50 at this conference, so I’m trying to get know them all a little. And this guy was talking about how he and a partner in Burundi, Africa, had just gotten funding from the [...]
Although I tried to scrounge up someone to come along with me, it looks like I’ll be alone when I hit North Carolina next month. I’ll be staying here: The Cove is a Billy Graham training facility near Asheville, NC and it looks gorgeous. There’s no TV, no radio, no kids and no smoking. Just Christian business [...]
I think us Wises have a common problem: we quickly develop a clear idea in our heads of what’s right in a given situation, and have little tolerance or patience for people who arrive at that idea more slowly than we do, or who arrive at a different idea than our own. Sometimes this lends [...]
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Nine days until Asia. Five years since our last trip there. We have gotten entirely too comfortable here, and we can’t wait to be reminded of what life is like outside of this bubble we live in. Last time we went we weren’t parents, and the responsibilities we left behind weren’t quite so large. This [...]
Right now a couple good friends of ours from church are a part of a team in Cambodia. Peter and Sherri live in our little village, their daughter is in Nicole’s student small group, and she often babysits our kids. Brian is the dad of our two primary babysitters, and of the young lady who’s coming [...]
I sat through a sermon a couple weekends ago. The preacher was not our usual pastor, but someone who spoke at a retreat we were at. His talks had some ups and downs — he certainly shed a lot of light on the Hebrew context that Jesus lived in. Toward the end of the weekend [...]
When I was 6 years old, my family moved to Bangladesh for a year. Among other things, this left a very young version of myself with an incurable restlessness that my wife would eventually learn to understand, and even share – on occasion. Five years ago, we responded to a growing passion for missions by [...]
A few days ago I tried to start putting down 2 years worth of scattered thoughts on how God seems to work in our lives — from my limited experience. And the conclusion I drew was that our planning role might not be as big (or shouldn’t be as big) as we like to think. [...]
So I sat down at a table at drop-in tonight, and asked the guys there what their hobbies were. The first guy, a 16-year old pastor’s son, answered that he was a heroin junkie who’d just spent the last 20 years in prison. The next kid said he worked in Toronto as Superman, but had [...]
In the secular world, wise people will tell you how to run your life. They’ll tell you that in order to succeed you need a 1, 5 and 10 year plan. That you need to write that plan down, and that you need to work toward the goals you established when doing it. Very few [...]
