Last Thursday I appeared on Mac’s World Live, a daily radio/web show on KTIA 99.3, concerning aspects of my trip to India and Nepal. Here’s a link to that interview. (You’ll want to start around the 15-minute mark as the first part is a rabbit … Read More
12 Words, 3 Phrases, 8 Days: Observations From South Asia
Cardboard houses all in a row. Yet in the middle of it a church was there, serving and preaching the beautifully good news of heaven in what seemed like a hellhole of human existence. God’s church, alive and well, had come to the slums. A … Read More
Of All Nations
Just some pictures (and a few captions) of my current trip to south Asia. It’s experiences like this where Jesus’ last command—“make disciples of all nations”—comes into even greater focus for me as I see it played out person after person in all kinds of … Read More
Q Zone: Super Bowl Edition on Good Receptions
Sunday we looked at what constitutes a “good catch” of God’s Word. In other words, how do you know if you’ve received the Word? As James so plainly states, it is both hearing and doing that constitute a true completion. Still, a few flags were … Read More
Q Zone: Tongue Tied about Trials
Two weeks of teaching on trials from James 1 no doubt leaves us with questions. But what is unique about the questions that have surfaced this week is they touch on core issues that are not only difficult to answer, but seemingly impossible. Frankly, some … Read More
They Just Barge In
One of the realities of life is that bad news rarely, if ever, sends up a warning signal. Trials never knock and ask for permission to enter. Tragedy doesn’t give a 30-day notice. These things just barge in. I was reminded of this last Friday … Read More
The Trouble with Trials
This morning in my message at FFC I examined something common to all of us—trials. No doubt some experience trials to a larger degree than others. But no one is exempt from them. No, not one. Frankly, at some point every person knows what it’s … Read More
Making Much of the Bible
As we opened our new series in James, one of the applicational points I made (designed to help us show what we know) was this: Make much of the Bible. Undeniably this addresses the “know” aspect of the above equation. But that first part is an … Read More