Someone asked why I often use the word “invite” when I talk about how Jesus brought people around him. For example, Jesus “invites” us to serve kids rescued from human trafficking. The point of the question, I think, was that for followers of Jesus things like serving orphans really aren’t optional. And that’s true. Jesus […]

Have you started doing your taxes? It’s a curious process, because it forces us to look back and create sort of a financial snapshot of the previous year. I just completed a similar exercise for the FREEDOM TOUR. It wasn’t about taxes, but creating a sort of year end picture of what 2023 looked like. […]

It seems like the more times I travel around the sun, the more nuance I discover in the world. Most situations don’t lend themselves to the black and white solutions we wish for. As much as we would like a pill for every malady and an answer to every difficult question, more and more it […]

A friend sent a newsletter in which he talked about unfair circumstances. Got me thinking about the source of our notion of fairness. Where did we ever get the idea that circumstances ought to be fair? I don’t really have an answer, other than for me unfair usually means I didn’t get what I expected […]

“Life’s not a battle…unless you choose to fight.” I wrote that several years ago in a social media post. I was amazed by how many people disagreed. It’s almost as though they wanted to, uh, fight? Gotta fight, they said. Gotta fight evil. Gotta fight the enemy. Gotta fight sin. Gotta fight human trafficking. Gotta […]

To some extent, we all get caught in the trap of people-pleasing. It’s natural to want folks to like us, perhaps even admire us. Becomes a problem, though, when we start orienting our choices around what we think might impress others. I thought about how this might look as we seek to serve riders and […]