Entries of October, 2012

Back in late March and early April I taught a course on prayer at the Kiev Theological Seminary in Ukraine.  Because a wealth of material had already been prepared with slides in Russian and English, I adapted those slides to my purposes.  One section of the material was called “How to Spend a Holy Hour [...]

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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke Today in our Women and Evangelism class my co-teacher Kim Merida gave an outstanding and often gut-wrenching lecture on human trafficking.  Here are a few of the things she shared: Human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons [...]

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On April 1, 2013, NavPress will release my book As You Go: Creating a Gospel-Centered Culture of Missional Students. This book follows up on my earlier book Raising the Bar which argued teens are not goofball adolescents, but are young adults capable of doing much for Christ. In As You Go I challenge student ministries [...]

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This summer I took up golf with vigor for the first time in almost two decades. Our children never showed an interest in the sport, and my interest in them throughout their childhood bushed the clubs into the deep recesses of our garage. With both of them marrying this summer I decided to activate my [...]

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Yesterday several of our classes came together to hear from NAMB leader Jeff Christopherson. Jeff talked about Kingdom ministry and offered some helpful insights into where we are today from his brand new book Kingdom Matrix, which you can see here. I immediately bought the book on my Amazon Kindle and look forward to reading [...]

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