If you follow the blogs of anyone who works at Adventures In Missions, you probably know that every Monday morning we start our work week off with an hour or so of worship together. The whole staff gets involved, there’s…

This week I’ve been spending my time as CGA Cruise Director. It’s Welcome Week again- the first week of each CGA semester when new apprentices are asked to come away from distractions, noise, technology, and their daily norm (usually only…

Disclaimer: I will be talking about gross things, and will use the word ‘vomit’ no less than 12 times, so if you have a queasy stomach, do yourself a favor and skip over this post. If, however, you want to…

was reading Neil Anderson’s captivating book Victory Over the Darkness this morning, and I was blown away at what the Lord chose to reveal to me. This was the statement that captured me: Light does not produce life. Life produces light. It…

Disclaimer: I just finished reading Viktor Fankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning so I’m pretty sure I know just enough about logotherapy to be highly dangerous. Whether that’s in the good way or not is yet to be seen. This book was seriously…

When I was in college, our university decided to spend a whoooooole lotta money building a state-of-the-art health and wellness facility. A fancy schmancy gym, in other words. This gym had it all: a climbing wall, bouldering walls, group fitness…

“Make no small plans; they will not move the hearts of man.” -Elton Trueblood Happy Giving Tuesday! We have been overwhelmed with all the support we have received from you, all the messages and letters, the prayers, and the kind words, especially…

At the Center for Global Action, I teach a course on emotional health called Restoring Your Identity. This week, I taught about grief. We all gathered ’round to discuss the requisites for healthy mourning, and the importance of external and internal permissions.…