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Announcing our latest book project: Through the River
Behind your every decision and relationship are assumptions about truth that guide your actions. They go unnoticed in your daily life but their influence guides your faith, your relationships and your outreach. Come and explore the communities that live in River Town. As you read this simple analogy, we will introduce you to the three most common ways to view truth today – we call them Truth Lenses and they are an important part of your worldview. We will watch as the Rock Dwellers, Island Dwellers and Valley Dwellers interact while using different lenses.
Through the River

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Ministry Campaigns
Every era in the American church has its tools for proclamation. In our time the tools of choice are pervasive and powerful. They reach out to us through media, relationships and experiences and it is critical that we consider what can be called “Ministry Campaigns.”

Dying on a Normal Day
Do you ever wonder what you will be doing when you die? Will you die in your sleep? Or when you are on your morning walk? Will your loved ones be with you or will you be alone? Why do we think about these things? What is it about the day that we die that is so intriguing to us? Maybe it is the fact that we don’t have control over that critical day when we change from a mortal being into an eternal one. We try to control so many things in our lives—for example, our wedding day. We spend months or even years preparing and dreaming about this day, and we orchestrate it to the very last detail. Many of us feel the need to control all the important days of our lives—birthdays, Christmases, anniversaries. The day that you die is infinitely more consequential than any of these, yet we have no control. We just have to wait and hope that it comes when we are at our peak or when we have accomplished all the goals that are pulsing through the gray matter in our heads.

God's Workbench
What is your calling? How do you fit into God's greater plan. This article spends a few precious moments thinking about that very issue.

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Four Time Zones and One Topic
Siberia, Florida, Peru, the Philippines and Arkansas make for an interesting learning experience. After more than a week of coordination and rechecking the time zones, we all agreed on a time. I was in my office, one participant was in a cyber cafe, another in their parents house and still another in their home. Each of us had an entirely different culture surrounding us and we came at the discussion with very different experiences and expectations. We brought to the discussion our assumptions about technology and learning, but left with a dynamic understanding of the topic and its global implications.

Clinging to Our Hope
The concept of hope comes from a deep place in our hearts. Having this common feeling within an organization or movement is essential to our ability to survive and thrive. Hope is a very misunderstood word in our world today. Many view it as a feeble emotion that is dependent on the strong action of other more worthy players. It is viewed as the mother sitting in the parlor “hoping” that her son will come to visit. It is seen as a powerless and ultimately unrealistic expectation. There is a definite sense that those who spend much time hoping would be better served by planning, strategizing, developing, etc. I see in my mind the picture of the boy who sits on a log with a fishing pole and sway’s the worm over the edge of the water, hoping that a fish will jump out and land on his hook. With this perspective, the word “hope” is not one I would want describing my life’s work.

But I think that this description of hope is far from reality. Hope as “the dreamer’s wish” is a mindset that does not have the benefit of an eternal perspective. Our world judges the hopeful harshly because its values are different. It desires certainty, clarity, predictability and control. Hope valiantly confronts the world’s judgment by refocusing our attention on a playing field that is much bigger than we can ever imagine.

Abandoning the Internet
The act of abandoning something is usually a last resort. It comes at the end of a very long process where I have tried every method and every avenue only to gaze down at my hands and find them empty. The word “abandon” has a serious and sad sound that reminds me of failure.

But there is another side to the word “abandon.” It is a rather hopeful word if it means that you let something go in order to pick something else up. If I have abandoned one idea, it gives me the freedom to open my arms wide to another.

The Prayer of a Technologist
Dear God,
Every morning when I turn the shower on, the reality that I am a part of a technology revolution gushes over me like the steaming water; it is heavy. I feel like the weight of the world’s future is resting on today’s decisions. The world is exploding with new rules, and it is changing the way I think about everything.

This life is exhilarating and at other times it is overwhelming. I’m racing through life, and my planner is packed until sometime next year. That is why I am talking to you now.

Here are 10 things that I think about each day.

A Vision for Great Commission Communicators
The greatest problem with Great Commission communications today is that we, unlike the village in Africa, have lost sight of the metanarrative that defines this world’s story. We have trivialized God’s mission by creating thousands of sub-messages that become competition for the metanarrative.

The Teacher and the Marketer
The two men met at a coffee shop in downtown Singapore. The coffee was dark, the crowds were stifling, but these two men found themselves sharing a small table – the last table. As they situated themselves, found their newspapers, exchanged uncomfortable glances and worried about the cares of their day, they found the time to have a quick conversation. You know the kind, “My name is ____.” “What do you do?” “How long have you lived here?”

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