Rest for the Weary

One day I was watching a farmer plowing his field with a team of oxen. I was somewhat amazed for one was a huge ox and the other a tiny bullock. The big ox towered over the little bullock who was sharing the work with him. It was amazing to see the farmer trying to...

I was on the edge and needed a change – FAST!

I was entering my fourth decade and was at the point of professional burn-out.  In the year prior I had traveled from the States to Southeast Asia six times to design and build out a regional office in Thailand for a large non-profit development agency. On top of this...

Transferring faith to Children: Ten Things to NOT do

As I shared in a recent post, statistics suggest 60-70% of kids raised in Christian homes are leaving the church in college years. Parents cannot strap kids into their pew seats for eighteen years and expect them to arrive at mature faith.   Terms like “postmodernism”...