During our recording sessions, Wayne paused to answer questions from those in attendance. This is some of the dialog that followed sessions 3-4. The Jesus Lens: Second Dialog Session – Here is some of the interaction that followed Wayne’s teaching. If you’d like to add your questions to some of the material you’re hearing in [...]

The fourth audio in our new series about the wonder of Scripture and how to read and interpret it through the revelation of Jesus. The Jesus Lens #4: The Jesus Lens – The climax of Scripture is found in the person of Jesus and only be reading all of it through his eyes can we [...]

Students sharing a meal at the Living Loved Children’s Centre in Eldoret, Kenya I interrupt The Jesus Lens for a special new bulletin: East Africa has been hit with incredible food shortages this spring and our brothers and sisters there are asking for our prayers and our help. I just wanted to put the word [...]

During our recording sessions, Wayne paused to answer questions from those in attendance. This is some of the dialog that followed our first two sessions. The Jesus Lens: First Dialog Session – What were people thinking after the first two sessions? Here is some of the interaction that followed. If you’d like to add your [...]

The second audio in our new series about the wonder of Scripture and how to read and interpret it through the revelation of Jesus. The Jesus Lens #2: The Jesus Lens – The climax of Scripture is found in the person of Jesus and only be reading all of it through his eyes can we [...]

We are adding to the Lifestream blog a new podcast component that will allow us to add audio here and for people to subscribe to it through iTunes or other podcast aggregators if they so desire. I’m going to begin by putting up the Transition series so that people can access it from their iPods [...]

Staff and students at the Living Loved Children’s Centre in Eldoret, Kenya I’m sorry I’ve not written in awhile. Life has been pretty complicated over the past few weeks as we’re hard at work on the Jesus Lens and a few other projects. We are trying to pace ourselves here, but at times it seems [...]

I had lunch today with some of the people who came from out of state to be part of our recording in the Indianapolis area. We had a great time. I enjoy conversations so much more than lectures… Anyway, during lunch one of those present wanted to thank me for my involvement in helping bring [...]

Thanks to all of you praying for us during my time In Indianapolis recording The Jesus Lens. It wasn’t flawless, to be sure, but that was not my expectation. I’m pleased with what we were able to record and really blessed by the audience who gathered with us. They were incredibly engaged with the material [...]

Sara and I will both be out of the office until May 18 and will not be able to fill orders for books or audio during that time. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience and delay and appreciate your patience. Orders sent in this week will be filled on May 18.

I don’t often use these pages to ask for personal prayer, but for those of you so inclined, I have a special request. This week will culminate more than 40 years of Biblical study and spiritual pursuit in a series called “The Jesus Lens: Reading Scripture in Light of the Revelation of Jesus.” I’m going [...]

For some time now, I’ve wanted to record a new series to help people sort through the truth of Scripture inside a relationship with the Loving Father that would be a companion to Transitions already on the website. I’m finally going to be able to do it this May in the Indianapolis area. Since we [...]

Well, I’m off to Austin for the weekend and then to Central Florida for the early part of next week. If you want to connect with either, please click on the links above. Also, the Dutch version of He Loves Me, is now available in Holland from Publishing House Shama, which also carries So You [...]

I am off again, this time to one of my favorite places—New England. I wish it were fall, or at least spring, but it seems to still be a bit cold back there after a long dark winter, as I hear it from many. I’m going to get to hang out with friends old and [...]

I generally assume that anyone who reads this blog also listens to my podcast over at The God Journey, but I find out from time to time that isn’t always the case. I do get a lot of email from people who deal with their adult children struggling with same-sex attraction, especially how they can [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

BodyLife has now become “Living Loved.” It’s still the same newsletter but with a more accurate title to go with the content. We will still deal with church issues and concerns from time to time, but the newsletter has always been about so much more. The title of this issue is, The Church Jesus is [...]

I just received this email from our brothers and sisters in Kenya: We are sending appreciations for you and for the brothers and sisters over there whom God Has touched to stand for this large project. We are praying for you, the ministry of Lifestream, and the brothers and sisters who have stood along side [...]

I just received word that Logos in Hong Kong has just released Authentic Relationships: Discovering the Lost Art of One-Anothering in Chinese traditional script. It blesses me how God continues to put these resources in the hands of other cultures. Moving our church experience from being a passive audience in a pew, to real Jesus-centered [...]

Brothers working on the foundation for the new building. We just received a check for $7,000 to help with the orphanage construction and with matching gift we are now about $30,000 from our goal, which means we only need an additional $15,000. At a recent prayer gathering in Kenya, the people there gave 36,000 Kenyan [...]

We’re taking a much-needed break for the holiday season. We apologize if this inconveniences you in anyway, but our offices will be closed until January 4, 2011. Any orders, phone calls, or other business will be handled at that time. We hope you have some joyful time and restful days in this season. Merry Christmas [...]

I got a ringside seat behind the scenes to watch this little movie grow up. I’ve known producers Bobby and Kevin Downes for years and watched them craft this Karen Kingsbury novel into a first-rate motion picture as an indie production. It has been well-received at film festivals and opens this weekend to the general [...]

I’m getting an increasing number of emails asking whether or not Brad and I are engaged in a lawsuit with Paul Young over the collaboration we experienced in putting THE SHACK together and making it available to the world. Regretfully, we are though not by our choice. The great sadness I’ve been sucked into through [...]

As many of you know I’m not a card-carrying, banner-waver for the house church movement. There are lots of reasons for that. It’s not that I don’t love relational expressions of church life, especially those that are house-sized. I love that. But I think something more foundational has to shape our hearts before any expression [...]

It has been a long time since I saw my blog entry page. We’ve been a bit busy. Sara and I arrived in England on Wednesday morning at 7:00, trained into our hotel and got prepped for a business lunch at 12:45. Then we went to see a matinee version of Les Miserables at the [...]

No, we’re not sitting in the stands. We’re not even huge soccer (or football) fans. And we’re not even in South Africa at the moment. We are home in California getting ready to leave for England next week. But St John’s Parish near Cape Town published a magazine called This Life, which they’ve put out [...]

In response to my recent BodyLife article about “How Do I…” I got an email this week. It was very encouraging. This came from an old friend back east, and I am not reprinting it for the kind words he says about me, though they are greatly appreciated since I am in a very difficult [...]

I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back here to do any further updates on Kenya. We have been overwhelmed with the work here and over the weekend was beyond Internet and electricity. We have just made a brief stop at an Internet connection. Your prayers have been most welcome. We’ve witnessed some extraordinary things, and when [...]

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 of living [...]

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 idea [...]

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, you [...]