I am home in Oregon for the present. It has been a fast ride of meeting with people daily and trying to capture for them in little five minute conversations everything that has happened in the past year…

As the holidays rolled through, it gave me an opportunity to think about tradition. In my family, we have had various traditions through the years. On my golden birthday (you know, when your age equals the day of your birthday)…

For the past few years I have picked up the reputation of being a Christmas grinch. I regretfully say that I have spent a lot of time griping about the fact that Jingle Bells starts playing before Halloween, that their…

  Our spiritual growth is a pretty simple thing, we are literally just called to rest in him (Matt 11:28). Here in Nicaragua the environment is so forgiving that even I can garden. We stick fenceposts in the ground and…

    My friend Chris Robertson told a story of being out in an orchard one night and hearing a strange sound. He was walking among the trees in the dark and he heard a laborious groaning before a small…

Just in case you don’t have a lot of time and are just speed reading through this blog post to find the answer to my luring title, I’ll tell you right here. The way to absolutely fail as a missionary…