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Crossing the Faith Frontier (Part Two)
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RELOCATION Our motivation to hit the trail comes from the greater vision God puts in our hearts. It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his...
Crossing the Faith Frontier (Part Five)
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RESOLVE On God’s trail, there is amazing reward and joy ahead that dwarfs any difficulty you will experience. Pioneers along the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s faced temptation to turn back, often on a daily basis. One settler wrote...
Crossing the Faith Frontier (Part Six)
How to Begin Your Epic Journey We tend to think that the faith heroes of the past were always “heroes.” They weren’t. They, like us, had daily lives as well, and not every moment was epic. It could be that you, like me, are feeling limited—not because you lack faith,...
Crossing the Faith Frontier (Part Three)
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RESOURCES Forging into faith frontiers is never quick, cheap, or easy. The challenge of moving into unsettled territory centers on our perceived need for resources: “What will I eat, what will I wear, where will I sleep?” Or,...
Crossing the Faith Frontier (Part Four)
Crossing the Faith Frontier Requires RELATIONSHIPS If you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together! So often, in our imaginations of taking bold steps of faith, we see ourselves standing alone, going against the crowd—facing persecution, stepping...
When You Wonder What Your Life Is For
I talked to the lady at the hotel who puts out our breakfast. “What do you do?” she asks. We must look like a sight, scrounging around for donuts and eggs and coffee with all our ragamuffin kids. “We travel for work,” I say. But, I can tell she’s still curious, so I...
Saying Yes to Truth
Lies. We believe them, we repeat them, and we tell them. Have you ever wondered why we give ourselves over to something we know to be both harmful and wrong? We tolerate being lied to, and we actually like to tell the occasional untruth ourselves. Why? Could it be...
What Do Your Words Smell Like?
You’re familiar with the power of the tongue as described in James 3. The passage brings us to this conclusion: “If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body” (v. 2 ESV). These words are hyperbolic, making the...
Why Pastors Are Discouraged, and What to Do About It
As President of Life Action, I spend much of my time with pastors—listening, encouraging, seeking to be a friend. And I have never seen a time like this in my thirty-eight years in ministry. Pastors are discouraged today at a level that is dangerous to the body of...
Keep It Simple
Would you agree that we often make things more complicated than they need to be? Of course life comes with hardships; we all face losses and challenges that require nothing less than God’s strength to endure. But the regular days—the get up, go to work, come home, do...