Recent news reports on Russia remind me of days of the Cold War and Soviet domination. People often ask how we “got in” there during the time of the Soviet Empire—when many were being imprisoned for simply owning a copy of God’s Word. My Dad had a vision of Satan’s attack on the children […]
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It was no coincidence that my good friend, Alan Platt, was scheduled to speak at staff chapel the week after we announced a hefty increase in our 2015 ministry goals. Alan is no stranger to audacious faith as he leads teams at Doxa Deo—a city-focused church and educational institute planting in Africa and beyond—as well […]
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We’re all familiar with Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”, which Beatrix Potters later adapted and popularized as “The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse”. While written in their day to extoll the virtues of simple, peaceful country living, the idiom could easily be adapted to portray today’s conversations about the disparity between urban […]
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I’ve been actively engaging people in missions since boyhood. As a youngster, my parents dressed my brother and me in flowy, traditional Arabic outfits as we traveled to the local churches raising support for our middle-eastern missions. In the 70’s & 80’s, my teenage brother and I cold-called churches from a closet “call center” to see if […]
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In part 1, we learned that God established the principle of tension in our world, but forbade stress. When we give in to stress, we are giving in to self-justification, which ultimately is sin. So, stress is bad, but tension is GOOD. Unfortunately we’ve conflated the concepts of tension and stress, and need to separate […]
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Tension vs. Stress What comes to mind when you hear the word tension? Anxiety? Blood Pressure? Stress? Many of us equate tension with stress. Ironically, God established the principle of tension in our world, but forbade stress. Tension is everywhere. It keeps the roof above our head, the bridge underneath our car, our guitars and […]
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