Luke Stehr

I grew up in the Midwest, and I remember the first snow day when I was old enough to go shovel the drive. I layered up, put on some boots, and trudged outside to grabbed a snow shovel. In Texas, we don’t often shovel our driveways, but as a native Midwesterner, rest assured that even…

Jesus was a bit of a party animal.   Well, that’s what the religious establishment of his day thought about him, and they had no qualms when it came to expressing their opinions about him. When Jesus responded to the criticism that he was a bit of party animal, he said, “The Son of Man came…

BWA’s World Congress was a stirring week, and as I continue to process everything that I encountered as I participated in this event, I continue to come back to Baptist World Alliance’s call for the global Baptist family to commit to joining in the Acts 2 Movement.  One of Dr. Elijah Brown’s recurring statements at…

God is always up to something.  That’s not really a secret – the Bible spells that out for us. God is up to nothing less than an all-encompassing reconciliation project (Col. 1:20), and this reconciliation project, which is cosmic in its scale, has also been put in our hands to be worked out in the…

My Uber driver Duke was turning the corner into my neighborhood. We’d spent the drive from DFW Airport talking about life and connecting over our similarly aged children. Over the course of the ride, Duke had shared about his life’s experiences with me: growing up in Afghanistan, working as journalist supporting the US backed government,…