My greatest joy is walking with guys as they learn to stop being knuckleheads and become men; to minister to hurt and wounded women as they find not just healing, but health and wholeness; to let others come forth into life and gifting as they exceed me in the Kingdom. For all of this, Lord, [...]
Read moreRegeneration
A friend posted this short video on Facebook and it’s too precious, timely and relevant to pass up. As you listen, may God mercifully and lovingly wound you in order to heal you. It’s by Paul Washer, who I first mentioned in a blog back in March (see God Is Not Passive). His burden for [...]
Read morePost-Release Community
I’ve been meeting with various brothers who also minister in the informal Christian networks I’m part of, along with others, to discuss starting a weekly fellowship (possibly in my home) for ex-inmates. My burden is for men whose lives are dramatically captured by God in jail, but then stumble when they get out because they [...]
Read moreConversion
It’s interesting how God sometimes returns us to our spiritual roots, even while we are pressing forward in the faith. Forty-three years ago on Easter Sunday, 1966, I became a Christian at eight years of age in response to a sermon preached by George Batson. George was then a young Assemblies of God pastor starting [...]
Read moreGod is Not Passive
I’m seeing others who also are quietly moving forward, with fire stirring in their spirits, to proclaim true repentance, Christ’s Lordship and the Kingdom of God rather than conformist, complacent Christianity. These co-conspirators are being compelled by God to preach outside our churches because too many of our pastors have been unwilling, so far, to [...]
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September 3, 2010

Teacher, pilot, foe of tyrants, world traveler, passionate, attorney, entrepreneur, friend of the dispossessed, Christian, thinker, reluctant counselor, occasional mentor, brother in the Lord, adequate cook, pretty good host and so-so bass fisherman.