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Thanks to all of your who participated in our 12 Days of Christmas Campaign. We just received this report from our partners in India describing what they did with the money. Enjoy, and thanks for your generousity toward the orphans of India! “On December 15th, a team of sixteen of us traveled to Haryana and…

My new book, Confessions of a Good Christian Guy, is out. The men who are reading this say it’s my best book yet. As far as men’s issues are concerned, it’s definitely a deep, probing look at what real masculinity is. I have a new blog that is dedicated to the book and these issues…

This is a great post from my new friend, Brad Brisco at Missional Church Network: If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, “Mind your own business,” and Jesus says, “There is no such thing as your own business.”…

100 every day.  100!  This is the number of new HIV/AIDS infections in Russia every day.  Not only does Russia have the highest infection rate in Europe (read the story), but it has among the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world (read the story).  100 new infections every day! HIV/AIDS is wreaking havoc on…

In case you didn’t think NY Giant’s, David Tyree’s catch was enough, check out his testimony. He recently spoke for Teen Mania’s Battle Cry event in New York. Show this to your friends, and your kids so they know what a real role model looks like.

Just a few rambling thoughts about the trip from a jet-lagged mind at 3:00 am: Nobody should have to die because they don’t have enough food to eat. To quote Bono, “Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.” Today, a little girl named Lilly, like my Lilly, dies on…

In the center of the curse of aparteid and visiting a carepoint tomorrow we hope to work with. I’m uploading a few pictures from the trip. Hope you enjoy them! Ugh! They won’t upload. But, go to my Facebook account here and you can see them. Be back home on Wednesday. Thanks everyone!

It took me twenty minutes to load my blog page, but I am determined! Hello to everyone and thanks for the many prayers and inquires from all of you – it is appreciated more than you know. Obviously, my heart is full with so much to tell you about our trip. Every single person who…

Today, I saw Jesus suffering in the eyes of an orphan named Nothando living in extreme poverty. She’s also malnourished, uneducated, and has little hope of a future. Then, I saw the face of Christ in a man who is dying of AIDS. He cannot get up and lives in a 4 foot by 4…

The last week has been BRUTAL. A car accident, I threw my lower back out, I missed my book contract deadline, there are problems everywhere I look, I’m tired, angry, and border-line depressed. Just a typical week before I leave on a mission trip! Seriously, if anything could go wrong, it did. Crazy things always…

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