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No Training Wheels

When Kaylie was about five and Tori was seven, we went on an Indian Princess camping trip. Many of the girls on the trip brought their bicycles so we spent the weekend dodging gangs of Princess biker chicks.   When…

The Deep End

Continued from “Help, I Need God!“    Do you remember the first time you: Went into the deep end of the pool? Jumped off the high dive? Rode your bike without training wheels? Drove a car by yourself? Spoke in…

Help! I Need God!

Continued from Help! I don’t need God! My friend, Thomi (pronounced ‘Tommy.’ I don’t know why, he’s just weird that way…), was leading a group that was putting up a church roof on an island off the coast of Mexico…

You’ve Been Bought…

I promise that this isn’t about football.   For those of you who haven’t been following the Bret Favre/Green Bay saga, here’s the SHORT update (sorry Bubba). Favre retired last year (for the second time) and then changed his mind…

Help! I don’t need God!

Continued from GWGYMTYCH…   Picture this: You’re on a mission trip. You decide that it would a great idea to have a “neighborhood feeding.” This means, in Texas parlance, that you’re going to have a BBQ and feed whoever shows…

Selling a product…

I was reading Jay Nordlinger, one of my favorite pundits, this morning. Here’s what he said about something that happened in NY city.    Was on the streets of New York the other day (as pretty much every day). And…

GWGYMTYCH

Continued from and sort of related to “No, Need To Pray“    You’ve heard it before; “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” (henceforth GWGYMTYCH) I don’t know about you, but this has been a very influential statement…

The Ditch

The trip we took to Mississippi was what AIM calls a “Level 2” trip. This means that the emphasis of the trip is not necessarily on work: building, tearing down, cleaning, whatever; but more of the trip’s focus is on…

No, Need To Pray

Recently, I’ve been talking with some friends about prayer and was getting some disturbing anecdotes about believers not bothering to pray because “God’s going to do his will anyway.” This bothered me on many different levels, not the least of…