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The difference between a TV and a computer is that you can make things on a computer. Content consumption vs. content creation. Consumption vs. creation is a good weather gauge for youthwork. Bonding through shared experience vs. building through intentional mentoring. Either without the other falls short. Earlier this week a letter appeared in the […]

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You’re overseas, serving Christ in a dangerous place. Radicals hear about you. The penalty for naming Christ is grim. They make an example of you. One day, when you’re not expecting it, you “disappear.” At least to your family, friends, co-laborers, and people back in the States. Your version is less mysterious. You’re snatched, blindfolded, […]

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Faith is born in the waiting. It’s how we learn to believe. When the promised son is sacrificed, or the reward for righteousness is opposition. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep […]

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I have expectations. They go unmet. I have a will. It gets crossed. Circumstances. Decisions. Other people. I can’t control any of it. Pride is involved. My sense of worth. What people think of me. And the whole matter of waiting. Waiting to find out. Waiting to move. Waiting to get. Waiting to do. Waiting […]

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Abraham, walking for three straight days to reach the place where his son would die. Three days with nothing to do but think about losing his son, whom he loved (Genesis 22). Jesus, the Messiah, seized, tortured, and killed by His enemies. Loved by His Father. Dead, buried, and gone (John 18-19). The burdens we […]