We live by chapters more than by years, but I think it a wise thing to reflect at the end of each calendar year on the blessings, the changes, the challenges, and the joys we faced. Reflection, evaluation, and a plan for growth should constantly mark the Christ follower, after all. For me, 2010 stands [...]

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”  John Crosby “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” Unknown “Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat him as [...]

I love being part of a seminary where I teach and a church where I minister with the nations on our heart. We minister in several nations, including church planting ventures on four continents.  I am leading a trip in 2011 for SEBTS that has mostly folks from our church going to Capetown, South Africa. [...]

If 24-hour news networks existed in 1809, they would have been falling over themselves chasing the latest news from the Austrian countryside. There they would witness first hand mighty Napoleon’s army moving across the nation with the fury of the recent California wildfires. No doubt on-the-scene, up-to-date reports would have worn out the viewer with [...]

One of the ways the Fall and the brokenness caused by sin reveals itself in our lives is the tendency to want things that actually do us no good, or at least only temporary “good.”  Think of your favorite food: most of us do not think of salads or fresh vegetables as tasty with nearly [...]