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 […]

“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 […]

I love Easter more than any of the other Christian holidays. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, although some would tell you that I am a Scrooge at Christmas. It’s not that I don’t like Christmas, but rather that I despise what we have made it. …