Corporate Prayer for the Desperate
Holy and Forsaken God, We come into your presence knowing that you felt utter desperation and loneliness. You felt isolated and forgotten. You felt unimaginable…
Living Redeemed
Exercise and Practice
This thought was waiting for me in my email inbox this morning, as I finished day one of working out again: Here is a traveler….
Finding Faith at the Lunch Table
If I think back to the first moment when faith sunk in deep into my life, it would be sitting around a lunch table at…
Good News and Good Works
I’ve had some conversations recently about the work of Imagine No Malaria from folks who are concerned that we are doing good, but we aren’t…
Praying… and sometimes ceasing
I have never really been able to establish a good routine when it comes to prayer. Just like most other disciplines in my life (exercise,…
Dear "Sign Guy"…
As I drive north on 380 from home, there is a field right by the interstate that has a homespun billboard. For five years, I…
Praying on an airplane
Friday I took an early morning flight home. I had been in Nashville for a few days to train some new field coordinators for Imagine…
Honey Badgers, Anxiety, and the future of the church
At our conference Orders Event a few weeks ago, we talked a lot about being anxious. The talk was from a systems theory perspective and…