It probably doesn’t happen to you. But every time I decide to follow Jesus in some new direction or with some deeper devotion, something goes wrong. It may be little, like forgotten car keys, it may be middle-sized, like a headache, it may be large, like a flood or a death. But something always happens. […]

(A repost from October 2011) “The son of man has come to seek and save the lost.” That was how Jesus summarized his work one day shortly before he was murdered.  He was sitting in the house of a rich man. He had invited himself over. The rich man had just committed half of his resourced to […]

Let’s do a little exercise to help us examine one aspect of our communication. Take all the words you have said while helping people during the last five years. Lay them across the table in front of you. Start sorting them into piles. Stack the duplicates by phrase. All the “Good job!”s go into one […]