Making disciples
There is a good chance you could at least roughly quote the words of Jesus in Matthew 28:19-20. For those who don’t immediately identify...
The power of working together
As a whitewater-rafting guide, I regularly led students down the Deschutes River in Oregon. A raft with eight middle-school students, each with paddles in...
Radically on mission
This is the final column that I will write as national director. Thinking about what to write, I keep coming back to what has...
Appreciate your pastor
While pastoring at Pine Acres Church in Weatherford, Oklahoma, from 1991 to 2004, my wife, Janna, and I experienced a congregation that wonderfully supported...
The value of life
Although I have written about abortion and the sanctity of life in the past, I have been asked by several people to clearly address...
Prepared for Christ’s return
In the book of Ecclesiastes, we read that there is a time for this and a time for that. At the beginning of a...
Wanted: young pastors
As we continue to explore the crucial need for developing more ministry leaders, I am calling for a vision summit to be held in...
Hungering after God
In July I asked our USMB family to join me in a dedicated 24-hour time of prayer and fasting. We collectively petitioned God to...