25 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, people in Eastern Europe are still haunted by the spirit of communism. The Regime robbed them not only from happiness and freedom, but from their deep human ability to even imagine a better and free world. For this very reason, we wrote the book “Looking over […]

Known as the “Painter of Light,” Thomas Kinkade died Friday, at his home in Los Gatos, Calif. Kinkade, who was perhaps the nation’s most collected living artist, was 54. He appeared to have died of natural causes, according to a statement issued …

Still reeling from the Spirit-led, powerfully anointed on-stage conversation with Dr. John Christopher Thomas this morning, and getting ready to go back out for his lecture tonight.  It’s been a remarkable journey through Revelation.  If Bono was leading worship tonight, I wouldn’t be much more excited. Chris mentioned at Little Rock this morning that given […]

I cringe at the image. Cardboard signs, trite T-shirt slogans, and scowling faces brighten news sites under titles proclaiming the indispensable work of the Christian church: “Christians Boycott over Holiday Greeting” and “Religious Sharks Eat Their Own over ‘Xmas.’” (I might have made up that last one.) Here are thousands of believers—mobilized, verbal, passionate—but about […]

This is the kind of entry where I am required by federal and ecclesiastical law to make disclaimers, so I’ll make them quickly. There is no question that the gospel is comprised largely of a series of paradoxes. So for example, in our weakness Christ is strong, and through the death of Christ love has […]

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797) “In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.  Then they […]

Missions Test 1: Mission, Method & Message (2012) Missions Test 2: Means, Motive & Opportunity (2012) Missions Test 3: Missionary Testament (2012) MissionSHIFT (Part 1): Paradoxes in Missions (2011) MissionSHIFT (Part 2): Free Will Missions (2011) MissionSHIFT (Part 3): WebMissions – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (2011) M3: Missions for the Third Millennium – A Public Position (2010) 8 Simple Rules […]