With the arrival of 2020, many leaders and organizations, including many churches, seem to be thinking and talking about vision. Just as 20/20 vision implies clarity and accuracy, so an organization that has a “2020 Vision Statement” seems to promise that it sees where it is going, and that its declared direction can be trusted. […]
Planting with Pat
I didn’t recognize the phone number that appeared in my voicemail notification, but as soon as I began listening to the recorded message, I knew the voice of my old friend Jim. We hadn’t seen him or his wife, Pat, for a few years, though Christmas letters and occasional e-mails kept us in touch. Jim’s […]
Our family’s Christmas miracle
If you have children still at home, or perhaps grandchildren for whom you care, you may have experienced occasions when they didn’t want to go to church. As frustrating as that can be, the feeling of disappointment and concern reaches a new level when those children are adults. That’s where we found ourselves as parents […]
Our next mountains
It’s a long drive back to Illinois from the mountains of Colorado. When our family, or one of my mountain-climbing sons and I make that drive, we are often physically exhausted from the past week of hiking. Yet our homebound conversation always includes one key topic—what are the next mountains we will climb? That conversation […]
I almost quit
This summer my son Caleb and I continued our quest to climb as many of the tallest mountains of Colorado as we can. There are 58 mountains in the state that are 14,000 feet in elevation or higher, and we have now summitted 30 of them together. There are a number of different ways that […]
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