When Winners are Losers

July 25, 2016 Run to win. Our family – at least, the next two generations – is at full strength; we’ve filled all of the seats on the family team bus, it seems, with Ben – adopted last year from South Africa as Grandkid #6. He’s only been in-country for 16 months – and, he’ll …

Don’t move… until you answer this question

July 18, 2016 “Where am I?” That question may not come up, for you, as often as it does for me. For the last 20 years, half of my nights are spent in a rent-a-bed. My ministry activities account for a lot of that travel, but my “off-time” isn’t spent in a recliner: for the …

The Ball is in Your Court

July 11, 2016 Chaos burns bridges… and builds platforms. We’ve had chaos this week, in downtown Dallas. Blocks from the place where John F. Kennedy was shot, 53 years ago, another lone sniper has incited chaos and conflict across a country that is already polarized because of politics and policing. Bridges are burning; people have …

Promoting Freedom to People Demanding Slavery

July 5, 2015 Freedom! “Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies …