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“…if you lack a missional imagination, [mission calls the church into being] then you’re not really a church…it’s very common for people to sit around saying, ‘We’re a church, now what’s our mission?’ It should be the other way around…If … Continue reading →

Isaac Hunter (Summit Church, Orlando) spoke on “choose joy” yesterday, using James Chapter 1 as his text. Isaac had spoken from this text before but this was different and personal.  The whole family, but mainly his brother, Josh, and sister-in-law, … Continue reading →

It always seems to hit me about this time of year: remembering our men and women who have served our country in the Armed Forces. My dad served.  He was proud of his service in the U.S. Marine Corp in … Continue reading →

My wife, Dallas, and I read (OK, listened to them on tape) three books over the holidays: My Grandfather’s Son (Clarence Thomas) Big Russ and Me (the late, Tim Russert) Quiet Strength (Tony Dungy) We almost ‘stumbled’ on to each … Continue reading →

Jim Collins in his book, How the Mighty Fall summarizes the path of decline for great companies: Hubris born of success; overreaching and the undisciplined pursuit of more; denial of risk and peril; ignoring or minimizing critical information refusing to … Continue reading →

Veteran’s Day is long past but, as I do each year, I stop to remember my Dad, Robert D. Creson, a veteran of WWII. Dad was a proud Marine, who fought in the Pacific with the First Marine Division, and … Continue reading →

MUSOMA, Tanzania – During this Christmas season, almost 2 million Africans will read the story of the birth of Jesus in their own language for the first time. It’s all part of an ambitious project to translate the Bible into … Continue reading →

It was an emotional day in Bundibugyo, Uganda, as 60 Bwisi people from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda graduated from an HIV/AIDS training seminar using “Kande’s Story.” All of the participants were HIV positive— many shared how the … Continue reading →

Kathleen Parker wrote a good editorial yesterday in the Washington Post.  My propose in blogging here is NOT to pick on or pick a fight with anyone.  I’m just perplexed, as she seems to be, as we move into a … Continue reading →

Don Hewitt, the creator of 60 Minutes is asked, what is the secret of your success?  “Tell me a story.  Every child knows this…the writers of the Bible were smart enough to know this.  There was evil in the world, … Continue reading →