The first book that’s both inspiring and challenging me is “The Wisdom of the Native Americans” Kent Nerburn has compiled a variety of...

You know the sayings?  “Old gardeners never die; they just recede” or “Old realtors never die; they just become listless.” They’re ways...

Taproot Theatre in Seattle is presently running a play about one of my faith heroes, Sophie Scholl.  Along with her brother Hans, these...

My temptation in such times is what sociologists call ‘cocooning’, a tendency to withdraw into the predictability of our homes, close the...

a few of the thousands save by courage, hospitality, and generosity. Every time I travel in Europe I try to read some European history,...

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...

On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it.  She’s was onto something, surely.  When Dave...

NOTE:   This is from a chapter entitled, “Exposure”.  I deal with the deadly life shrinking nature of fear in this post.   Sorry it’s...

It’s nothing new. And further, it’s nothing new to note that it’s all being done in God’s name by both sides. Giving a soldier a Bible...

“snow on snow” (12 feet, or 4 meters for my Europe friends) as the Christmas carol says, the house was dark because the power had gone...

Mourning at a stadium in San Bernadino Behind the holiday lights, both here in Europe and back home in the USA, the waves of unhappy news...

“And in His name all oppression shall cease…” These were the lyrics coming from the speakers yesterday afternoon when I discovered...

Schladming for a little bit of rest before I head up to England for a week of speaking at Capernwray Hall.   The week is a break in the...

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...

My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were nearly the last people to...

Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...

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...

If success is a mountain, I’m an accidental climber. Has it ever happened to you?  You’ve been working hard for goals you believe in for...

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...