• Andres Iniesta’s World Cup Tribute

    Andres Iniesta got one of the record 13 yellow cards in the World Cup Final Sunday . . . but this one was worth it. Why did he get a yellow card? For taking off his shirt after the extra time goal that put his Spain team ahead 1-0 over Netherlands. Why did he take…


  • Is God listening?

    In my twenty years in ministry I’ve heard myself and many I walk alongside asking the question, “Is God really listening?” Great question. Let’s dig in. In the next few weeks on my blog, I’ll reflect on a few of the pressing questions we ask as human beings. Is God Listening? Hagar was Father Abraham’s…


  • Plan B

    I read Anne Lamott’s Plan B and wasn’t too high on reading this guy’s plan B, but it didn’t turn out too bad. Here’s a review in Publishers Weekly. Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would? Pete Wilson. Thomas Nelson, $14.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8499-4650-9…


  • High Places: a novel set in 1920s Africa

    High Places: a novel How to order the book Read Chapter 1 About High Places If Tenwa could make it across the Nile River he might be saved, but he could never return to his home village. The missionary told him burning his tribe’s religious shrine would please God. But now the tribal leaders–even his…


  • I liked this book on parenting

    Starred Review in Publishers Weekly ★ Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today’s Families Michelle Anthony. David C. Cook, $14.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4347-6447-8 Parenting books can be preachy—readers often feel like the children of the erstwhile parent turned author. This one is different. The Ph.D. mother-author’s conversational style is more narrative than didactic as she…


  • Good Soil

    “Don’t scoff at the idea of a pastor who is also a farmer writing about Jesus’ parable of the sower. Robinson is the real deal–a farmer who lived off the land for two decades, raising children with his wife and without electricity. . . . The book resonates with the injunction to live simply so…


  • Outsider Interviews

    From Publishers Weekly: Inspired by and supported with a foreword by David Kinnaman, author of the bestselling unChristian, this tandem book/DVD puts faces on Kinnaman’s findings on Christianity’s image problem. In four cities, the authors interviewed Christians but also agnostics, atheists, Muslims, gays, and other groups Christians are believed to reject. At the heart of the…


  • People4Uganda Video

    In this video we introduce you to some of our dear friends in Uganda and how they’ve impacted our lives, and at the end you’ll take a ride on a roller coaster.


  • Water4Uganda Video

    Can water wells be dug by hand? Yes, that have for centuries. Can a 6 inch diameter bore hole be drilled by hand and hit water? Until now, most people would say no, you need a drilling rig. Enter Water4, Dick Greenley, Chris Cotner, and Steve Stewart. Two years ago, my friend Chris King introduced…