What the American Church Must Hear from the Global Body of Christ  “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” —1 Corinthians 12:26  This summer at the Baptist World Alliance Congress in Australia, I sat shoulder to shoulder with leaders from Syria, Indonesia, Nigeria,…

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,…

So much of life comes down to our habits – those things we do overtime that become so engrained we do them without thinking.   When I first moved to Arlington, I needed navigation to go everywhere: church, my kids’ school, a friend’s house; you get the picture. A few years into life here though, I…

In the days between Easter and Pentecost, I’ve been trying to sit a little bit longer in parts of the Bible like Luke 24 and Acts 1 that recount the time between Jesus’ resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  Following his resurrection, Jesus suddenly appears to his followers, and after proving to them…