There was a time in my life when Campus Crusade For Christ was an important tool that God used to shape and mature me.
I have met hundreds of Campus Crusade staff over the years, and every one of them impresses me with their passion, vision, and persistence in their desire to reach college students with [...]
One of the things that Stephanie and I love about our new church home is the intense emphasis on national and international missions.
The Summit Church has a vision to plant 1,000 churches in the next 40 years — most of them in un-reached countries around the world.
That’s right: one thousand churches
One vehicle for this effort [...]
You’ve seen a couple of posts here about Lecrae.
Today I want to let you know about another very talented rap artist associated with Lecrae and the Reach Records label.
He calls himself ‘Tedashii’ (and he tweets!), and he just released a new album, called “Identity Crisis” (you can buy it here).
My favorite track from the album [...]
I heart Francis Chan.
Take 3 minutes and watch this.
(Courtesy of Mr. Vitamin Z)
This is a short video from Sermon Jams featuring a sermon snippet from a modern-day hero of mine: John Piper (who is on twitter!).
Listen to him spell out Paul’s teachings about displaying Christ as your treasure!
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There was a time in my life when I was somewhat into poetry.
I found it to be a good tool for exploring my thoughts and emotions, and also a good way to express them in a way that would make sense when looking back from the future.
I haven’t made time to sit down and try [...]
Lecrae is definitely my new favorite hip hop artist.
His newest album, Rebel, has been in heavy rotation on my playlist for weeks.
One of my favorite tracks is called “Don’t Waste Your Life” (based on the Piper book).
Over a year ago, for my birthday, Steph bought me a book I had never heard of: Visioneering, by Andy Stanley.
She bought it because she knows I seriously admire Andy Stanley, and I would love to learn anything I can from him.
But she also bought it because she knows that I have a borderline unhealthy [...]
From John Piper:
1. Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother’s womb (except in the case of abortion).
2. Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to save them while another child the same age is being legally destroyed.
3. Babies can sometimes survive on [...]
If the only news you usually get is from CNN or Fox News, you are tragically missing out on what’s going on in the world.
There are about 29 million people in Uzbekistan, a country run by a KGB hitman thug. Karimov’s cruelty and lack of respect for his fellow man is mirrored down through the [...]
Saw this on the Smiths’ blog.
These kinds of things really get the wheels in my head turning (video embedded below):
The September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.
No, this isn’t an announcement that our church body will be partnering with Hooters, but I think it’s pretty cool that this church body did.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Houston church’s connection to Hooters — a restaurant chain whose signature is waitresses in skimpy orange shorts and tight tank tops — goes back more than nine years [...]
John Piper talks about the supremacy of Christ.
This is the message I want to spend the rest of my life communicating in every way that I can.
I daily beg Jesus to pay off our debts and give me a job where I can spend all day, every day proclaiming this message:
(ht: Zack)
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I just came across yet another article about child labor in Uzbekistan*.
Here’s how it starts:
Despite signing two international treaties and adopting domestic legislation prohibiting the use of child labor, Uzbekistan continued to rely on a “state-orchestrated mass mobilization of children to bring in the 2008 cotton harvest,” a new report has found.
By the end of [...]
