Archive for 2011/02


Finding Fellowship

As you can imagine I get the Hebrews 10:25 question a lot. This email exchange might interest others of you who are wrestling with this same issue. My recent newsletter also talks more The Church Jesus is Building in our world today and how we can participate in it. I wonder if you could give [...]

Interview Posted

I did an interview yesterday with an Aussie, Mick Mooney, living in Hamburg, Germany covering in broad strokes the passion of my heart and life. Some of you may find it interesting, as you will his website, Searching for Grace which includes provocative comics of people trying to think through things a bit differently. Also, [...]

Email Trouble at Lifestream

If you have tried to email me over the last 24 hours, I have not received it. The server farm where our websites are located (and which we’ll soon be leaving) were conducting some maintenance and have messed our email. Hopefully none of it is being lost and we’ll eventually get it. If you don’t [...]

New Pictures from Kenya

The refurbished building’s exterior nears completion. The walls continue to rise on new construction. Progress continues both on the refurbished structure and the new building. It’s great to see them making such headway. They hope to complete the building before the rainy season makes work difficult. We appreciate really for your prayers as well as [...]

The Conversations of Community, Part 2

I appreciated much of the feedback from people who read my last blog. And my heart hurts for those who do not yet know that there are people around them, probably closer than they think, who are on a very similar journey and hungering for the same kind of contact. I find them everywhere, so [...]

The Conversations of Community

I had an awesome time last week with a number of brothers and sisters up on Vancouver Island, one of the truly lovely spots on the planet. We got a chance to process lots of various topics that they are thinking through in their transition from living a performance-based Christianity to an affection-based life in [...]

Progress in Kenya

The walls begin to rise from the foundation. The work continues and many of the workers are volunteers. This is not part of the new construction, but some of the refurbishment of the existing buildings. New pictures have arrived from Kenya. I can’t begin to describe the overwhelming gratefulness that fills my heart looking at [...]

The Myth of Full-Time Ministry

I got this email today from a friend, Michael Simpson who has been a missionary in Russia for the last season of his life. But now they are back in the States as God has taken their life a bit of a different direction. I love this, what they have learned and how God has [...]

Off Again — To Vancouver Island

I leave tomorrow for a weekend trip up to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It should be a lot of fun hanging out with some people I’ve yet to meet who are on this journey of living loved. There’s always an anticipation in my heart about where our conversations might lead and what God [...]

Two Minutes with Dave

I found out an interview I did with a new-found friend at the Dallas House Church Conference Last April has just been posted on line. Dave Bilbrough is a troubadour for the Jesus from the UK with a guitar and a passion to help people connect with God. He did an iPhone interview with me [...]

Lifestream Resources in Spanish

I just discovered that someone in Mexico is translating some of our articles into Spanish. Unfortunately I can read any of it to know what’s all there, but if you know people who want to read these articles in Spanish, please check it out. We have also posted the PDFs of those articles on our [...]

Wounding Others

I just saw this quote in someone’s email today. Love it! It shows how bright some of those “older saints” were. “No one heals himself by wounding another.” Ambrose of Milan Every thing we do in this world has the potential to do immeasurable damage to people or bring immeasurable healing to them. The most [...]