Singapore: West meets East

I have been in Singapore less than 24 hours.  I will not attempt to be an expert on the people, culture, or worldview.  I put that disclaimer up front.  I have, however, formed some first impressions that lead me to pray for this nation like never before.  I have names, faces, and experiences to shape my prayers. In the past 20 hours (I arrived at 1:30AM and I am writing at 9:15 PM), I have...

Platt calls the Church back to the World

My first exposure to David Platt was in hearing a message that he shared at the 2009 SBC Pastors Conference.  He is a young pastor, passionate in his call, with a clear voice to a radical new future for the believers and churches who want to take the message of Christ serious and personal. GPC is in the midst of a series of messages called Radical.  We bought a copy of David’s book...

Dave Ramsey vs. Africa

How you comin’ on your 6 month emergency plan?  Yeah, us too.  Lori and I have learned a lot from Dave and still tune in.  However, when we lived and worked in Africa we had the hardest time getting our brothers and sisters to understand some of the biblical truths on financial management, particularly saving money for the future needs they might have. Gallup recently released a study on...

Dem/Gaz Article: What will be of the SBC?

I was interviewed for an article that ran in Arkansas largest paper last week. It has resulted in some interesting conversations and phone calls. I thought I would copy the article and put it in my blog so all 5 people who read my blog can see it.:)  I am going to spend the next couple of weeks expounding on my thoughts as it relates to denominations life and future.  There will be a lot of...

I miss my wife…but she can leave anytime

I am so excited!  My wife left me on March 16th with a group of 7 other women.  This isn’t the first time she has left me.  She’s gone to Amazon without me, bungied with a team of volunteers off the Vic Falls bridge in Zambia without me (while would anybody jump off a perfectly good bridge), she discovered, with 3 other ladies from GPC, a little village in just south of Timbuktu,...