Missions
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In this mission where we are serving there are several college aged kids interning. What I love about this current generation is their willingness to serve and they DO IT. These folks are throwing themselves into this work with joy. It’s great to see. Read more
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One of the things about any missions trip is it reveals a couple of things quickly: the condition of the heart and body. I may spend my life pastoring an inner ring suburb, where there are challenges of new ethnic groups, older groups not wanting change, poverty, transition, etc., that doesn’t mean I am used… Read more
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We are currently in San Francisco on our missions trip. You can literally across the street and move from abject poverty to fabulous wealth. But poverty is not about what is on the outside. Spiritual poverty exists all through the city. Read more
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As I read Radical and think of missionary heroes, there is a stirring in my heart about THIS being the time to step out in faith. We can’t wait for others. We need to hear the voice of the Spirit. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream Again in the Apocrypha, the CEB… Read more
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Our staff is finishing up the book Radical by David Platt. He ends the book with my favorite thing: missionary stories. Radical missionary stories. I fed on these stories when I was in high school and college. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream C.T. Studd was a missionary who didn’t believe in… Read more
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My youngest son is involved in the group “Invisible Children.” A lot of kids in his high school are incredibly passionate about this project. One of the exciting things I see in this generation is passion for great causes. They raise thousands and thousands of dollars for projects like “Invisible Children” and Project Rescue, which… Read more
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I have made my way through the Live Dead Journal and know it’s not the end. My heart is challenged. All the way through I have been challenged with, “How do I live dead in the land of plenty?” How can I stretch myself is this place of comfort so that those who are called to these… Read more
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Tackling the parable of the sheep and the goats hasn’t been easy. I still don’t have this one working very well in my mind. Yet, when I think of this passage with “the least of these” being Jesus’ disciples (the Sent Ones), I reflect on those who have gone before. I think of those who… Read more
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As I work my way through the Live Dead journal I am constantly challenged with the thought, “How can I possibly live dead in the midst of doing well?” I am not going to Africa. I’d like to go teach and preach in Africa or other places in the world, but I am a pastor and… Read more
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Dick Brodgen in The Live Dead Journal talks about three martyrdoms: red, green, and white. In the Green Martyrdom the Irish would build communities and invite people in. They would invite people to belong before the invitation to believe. Even though the Green Martyrdom is hard because it is giving up one’s will for another person,… Read more
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