On Saturday, Leif and I toured Soweto, one of the townships outside Johannesburg, South Africa, with our friend Pierre (pastor of Third Place—an amazing church). We admired the vibrant culture marked by creative and colorful artwork as well as the pride exhibited by...
Today was one of the best days of my life. I don’t say that often for obvious reasons, but today is an exception.We spent the day in Kruger National Park with our delightful hosts Lynette and Gert who on his “hunches” were able to allow us to see the Big Seventeen in...
I’m always fascinated by the church in Europe, because I believe they hold rich insights into where the church in America is heading. I recently shared dinner with a witty professor and vicar from England. I asked him the following: Knowing that the United...
My friend, Rebecca, from Michigan recently introduced me to Petoskey stones: a combination of rock and fossil (fossilized coral) that formed through glaciation. She explains that sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, ground off the jagged edges, and left them...
My friend, Leonard Sweet, once noted that 79% of all Yale ministry graduates from 1702-1779 served one congregation all of their lives. The statistics highlights an earlier era where people served in the same ministry or job for their entire life. This was not only...
E.M. Bounds once wrote: “The preacher’s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself… It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God...
