even as i sleep

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Being a mis­sion­ary can be dis­cour­ag­ing at times. Often one can begin to won­der, “Are the things I am doing mak­ing a dif­fer­ence? Are the con­ver­sa­tions I’m hav­ing with so-and-so point­ing them to Jesus at all?” These ques­tions are dif­fi­cult when real effort is met with change too slight to even notice at times. It […]

the slightest hint

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I’m not real sure how to explain what Jesus has been doing in my life lately. I assume that part of the rea­son is that I’m still real­iz­ing and pro­cess­ing many of the lessons I’ve been learn­ing. It’s been really good. And when I say that, I don’t mean its been the easy, frol­ick­ing through […]

drink deeply

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“I am the bread of life; who­ever comes to me shall not hunger, and who­ever believes in me shall never thirst.” John 6.35 When you begin to encounter Jesus and His Gospel, you begin to real­ize how much fol­low­ing Him will cost you. The rea­son it is so dif­fi­cult is because we are nat­u­rally self­ish. I […]

i’m hooked

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For about a month now, my beau­ti­ful wife has been try­ing to get me to lis­ten to Fran­cis Chan’s series on the Holy Spirit. How­ever, I didn’t get around to it until one of the mes­sages became home­work for Ground Attack team this week. I have to admit that I’m hooked. I believe I am […]

grace and peace

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Grace and peace. I love the way those three words sound rolling off your tongue. Even more so, I love when I find them reign­ing in my soul. You know the times that I am talk­ing about–the moments when you feel at home in your own skin, where there is no bat­tle between your spirit […]

lions and lambs

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My fam­ily was in town this week­end, and we went to the glo­ri­ous River­banks Zoo on Sat­ur­day.  I love that kind of stuff so much, and I learned quite a bit… Ani­mals teach me about the com­plex­ity, the cre­ativ­ity, and the imag­i­na­tion of God.  How big must our God be to think up some of this […]

a spoonful of humility

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Lately I’ve been think­ing about what God has been teach­ing me in the changes of the past year. One of the preva­lent and painstak­ing lessons I have been learn­ing is undoubt­edly humil­ity. And one of the clear­est avenues that these lessons have come through is by my so called “career” since grad­u­at­ing col­lege. When I […]

gas station eschatology

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I used to be a really big Left Behind fan.  I don’t care what you say about them, or about how off Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenk­ins’ the­ol­ogy is…they are just good fic­tion.  Those books define the word “page-turner”. How­ever, dur­ing the past few years at Ander­son, I learned a lot that changed my views […]

learning that I’ve got a lot to learn

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I’d say that just about sums up the past month or so of my life. God has hum­bled me and bro­ken me in many ways, and for that I am thank­ful. I have had more free time in the past month than I’ve had in a long, long time and I have been embar­rass­ingly undisciplined […]

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