Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!

left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...

The sad reality, though, is that the testimonies offered that day also served as a grave reminder that courage, servanthood, generosity,...

My predecessor just keep using his gifts day after day for 38 years. The difficult truth that few seem interested in hearing these days...

1. Coffee.  Always first:  Coffee 2. Bible reading while drinking the first cup. 3. Meditation (from the Bible reading) 4. Writing in the...

The church hasn’t been immune to this polarizing.  We’ve mirrored the culture’s political tribal hatred, enough so that it’s increasingly...

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day… life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country...

The first winter we lived in the mountains, an early storm knocked down hundreds of fir trees deep in the cascades, and those trees...

Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...

They would, in other words, rather look on a relationship from the outside, experiencing the hollow thrill of being an observer, rather...

Over 37 years, two stockings have become ten. JOY! It was in the late summer of 1976 when I first made my way north to Seattle,...

I started a little vacation about a week ago.  The plan was to hike a big chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife of nearly 37...

All right then.  It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and...

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might…”  The Preacher in Ecclesiastes I’m sure you’ve been there.  You want...

It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together.  I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...

Our view of guidance is important, because unless we believe God can still direct our lives, orchestrating encounters, moving us to...

Most years, the first or second week of December, I’m in the little town of Schladming, in the Austrian Alps, to teach at a Bible school...

In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...

The Achilles story is appropriate  because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes.   Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

There’s a hearing.  It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...