I was thinking about all the things that I do to make my life easier – where I put my resources, where I spend my leisure time, the kinds of conversations we have around our home, the relationships I have with my children and my in-laws – all those things to set up a stable, sound house for my kids to come home to and grow up in. Yet, I also have been convicted more and more in recent days how much we do on our own, how much the real spirit of the house is the relationship that those who live in it have with the Lord Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Continue →
Over the weekend I was on a conference board call with another organization, and we were discussing a grievance policy that needs to be put in place so that people know how to approach each other when issues need to be worked out. The policy is pretty much the Matthew 18 sequence of presenting the grievance to the person and then working through a series of meetings to come to resolution. Continue →
When I was in high school, I tore the cartilage in my knee playing basketball, and back in those days, the way they solved that problem was to remove all the cartilage from the knee. Now, many years later, I am suffering the consequences of that surgery. The other day I was carrying a table on a lawn, and I fell into an indentation in the lawn and twisted my knee, causing me to be on crutches for the next week. Continue →
Recently I have spoken at several missions conferences where they have parades of flags. It’s kind of cool – all the flags from different nations parade down the center aisle and are placed around the sanctuary to remind us that God’s kingdom is bigger than just our culture and our country. Continue →
Like many of you, I have a job that is never done. There is always one more letter to write, one more person to encourage, one more decision to make, one more bit of research to look at in order to make a wise decision. There’s more time to be spent praying and reading the Bible. I’m never done. Continue →
I don’t want any of you to get offended or feel like I’m poking fun at any particular group of people, but something happened to me Sunday morning that I think is worth writing about: Continue →
