There is a moment that happens in a lot of Christian lives, usually around age sixteen, usually at a summer camp, usually during a service designed to stir something up. Everyone prays. Everyone waits. And some people walk out of that room certain that God has spoken....
THE TREE WASN'T THE PROBLEM By Bill Tibbetts Learned something new recently as a homeowner. EAB. Emerald Ash Borer. It’s a bug. And it destroys ash trees. In particular, it murdered my 40-year-old ash tree in our front yard. MURDERED, I tell you! The...
When Jesus Zags Instead of Zigs What do we do when Jesus isn’t following the script we expected? My son has taken up golf with a vengeance. He played with me a bit growing up, but his college buddies pulled him into...
Achievement Culture and the Erosion of Love His phone never really stopped buzzing. There was always another text to return, another person who needed him, another problem that somehow became urgent at 9:47 p.m. His calendar? It looked...
Within the Design What if the life you’re trying to create is too small of a story? I still love a good movie. And not just the streaming kind. You know, a proper film…in a theater where they’re supposed to be watched. Escaping the hot summer temps and...
The Mission Field You Walk Into Every Monday Most of us think of missions as something that happens over there. Far away. Across an ocean, behind a visa wall, in a language we don't speak. It belongs to the professionals, the people who went to Bible college and...
Remember Who You Are Your assignment may change. Your identity never will. I’ve been unsuccessfully fighting back tears most of the morning. You know the feeling—that tingling in your sinuses with the occasional nasal drip finding its way out onto the tip of...
The Leadership Drift Problem Why We Overcorrect, Undercorrect, and How to Stay Anchored Bill Tibbetts There is a leadership pattern I cannot unsee. Once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere: churches,...
That Time I Was Confused for the Uber Driver What started as an awkward misunderstanding became an unexpected lesson in humility. I recently attended an incredible missions conference with many of the missionaries and scholars whose books, articles, and videos...
Most Christians assume their work is secular. These three marketplace believers prove that the sacred-secular divide was never real to begin with.
There is a moment that happens in a lot of Christian lives, usually around age sixteen, usually at a summer camp, usually during a service designed to stir something up. Everyone prays. Everyone waits. And some people walk out of that room certain that God has spoken....
The Mission Field You Walk Into Every Monday Most of us think of missions as something that happens over there. Far away. Across an ocean, behind a visa wall, in a language we don't speak. It belongs to the professionals, the people who went to Bible college and...
Most Christians assume their work is secular. These three marketplace believers prove that the sacred-secular divide was never real to begin with.