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...
What defines my identity?
In recent columns I’ve written about the influence today of secularism in the American church and that only a small percentage of Christians in...
Do we have itching ears?
“Things once unthinkable are now unquestionable,” writes John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center, in his foreword for Faithfully Different by Natasha Crain. This...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...