Kenya is still going wonderfully well. We’ve been very busy the last couple of days getting started in Butere and I’ll try to write more in the next coupe of days.
But I wanted you to know we’ve released a new edition of BodyLife, our periodic newsletter to encourage people in the simply [...]

What an amazing trip this has turned out to me! Each day in our conversations I’ve continued to invite people into a real love relationship with the Father and unraveling the knot of religious performance and ritual that robs us of that relationship. Father has simply invited us to live in the increasing [...]

We finished the conference in Kitale this morning, and had excellent interactions with nearly 300 church leaders about living loved and loving others. By their questions and comments it was clear that God was giving them insight into these things even as many of them realized that this is a major shift in how their [...]

Touring Nairobi on Day 1

Kent and I arrived Monday night and are settling in to our two-week visit to Kenya. We spent the first day getting to know some of the people that planned for our coming and mapping out what was ahead. Then they gave us a tour of Nairobi. That’s them above [...]

The brothers and sisters who have been praying for our upcoming trip.

On Sunday I head for Kenya to gather with group of brothers and sisters I’ve written a lot about over the last two years. Kent Burgess, a good friend from the St. Louis area will be going with me. We have no [...]

You can tell you’ve stopped cherishing your spouse when the little quirks that endeared you to him or her in the first place become annoying. The problem lies not within the spouse.

Just in case you haven’t already become sick of hearing my voice, I thought I’d list a couple of new recordings that were put on the web this week.
For those who want to hear the presentation I did for the Sunday morning services last week of a Presbyterian congregation in New London, PA, [...]

Sara and I are back from Pennsylvania, and a weekend with a bunch of Presbyterians. We had an amazing time with some amazing conversations about living loved and how all the religious noise can get in the way of that. We were there for a marriage retreat, with Sara and I sharing a [...]