To My Daughter On Her 13th Birthday

You are my sunshine.  Always have been.  Always will be. Late one night, shortly after you were born, I held you in front of our Christmas tree.  I prayed, “God, please help Tabitha grow up to be a woman who is deeply in love with you.”  I knew at the time what that...

What I Wish The Church I Lead Knew

My friend, Jen Taylor, recently wrote a blog post that generated quite a bit of cyberspace discussion:  What Pastors Wish You Knew (http://bit.ly).  She writes, “So I asked about two dozen Pastors what they wish the people in their church knew.”...

58: Fast Living

I’ve known Scott Todd for several years now.  I first became acquainted with him when he was leading an initiative to help stop the AIDS pandemic in Africa.  Today, Scott is a champion not only to put an end to the AIDS crises but also to eradicate world...

7 Billion To Serve . . . Today

That’s right, global population hit 7 billion people today! October 31st, 2011 is a day that goes down in the history books.  In 1900 we were at 1.6 billion and by 1999 we had eclipsed 6.1 billion.  Since 1987 we’ve grown from 5 billion to 7 billion!...

Why I Climb

When I mention to someone that I am getting the itch to climb a mountain once again, the most frequent response is a vacant stare followed by a series of queries as to why in the world would anyone want to do that?  At that point it would be easy to allow the...

Planting Missional Life: Q & A On GoCommunities

We had been teaching for four weeks in our weekend gatherings about GoCommunities.  Our public launch was impending and people (rightfully so) still had lots of questions.  Sooo, we set aside a weekend to simply answer questions.  Lots of questions.  People in our...