Everybody, Always

spend our lives building castles. He said He wanted us to build a kingdom, and there’s a big difference between building a castl ...

“What? How come?” his wife must have asked. The simple answer is, he probably didn’t know. The real answer was that God was doin ...

answer. What part are you going to play in building the kind of kingdom Jesus said would outlast us all? We have a lodge up in C ...

I got into the back of the limo and talked to the driver through the window dividing us as we traversed Orlando on the highway. ...

twenty-five years. “Wow,” I said. “I bet you’ve met some interesting people in that time—not me, of course, but you know, famous ...

don’t need to spend as much time as we do telling people what we think about what they’re doing. Loving people doesn’t mean we n ...

CHAPTER 6 Skydiving God was with us so we’d be with each other. My son Adam is out of college and is fearless. He’ll try anythin ...

Squinting as I looked toward the sun to find the airplane two miles overhead, I watched as Adam jumped out and started his free ...

ones He loved. He wanted to be a participant. He wanted to be with the ones He loved. I do too. After months of taking Adam to t ...

jumped right out of my tennis shoes. No joke. Try doing that sometime. It’s not easy, but it’s what it looks like to want to be ...

thought I would. What I’ve been doing with my faith is this: instead of saying I’m going to believe in Jesus for my whole life, ...

away an almost perfect parachute because one small string out of hundreds of them is out of place. It’s good enough, right? Here ...

skydiving is true in our lives. It’s usually not the initial failure that takes any of us out; it’s the bounce. We’ve all hit th ...

CHAPTER 7 A Day at the Museum It doesn’t matter what our faith looks like; it matters what it is. Have you ever been to Madame T ...

I could hear a couple of people coming, so I froze. Two little old ladies were heading my way. When they came around the corner, ...

Licenses are a little more sophisticated now than they were then. Still, a lot of people are cutting out parts of their life, fl ...

down before I’m worn out. One week, I wanted to impress her and prove what great shape I was in. I told her all week how I was g ...

both dropped dead. It sounds more than a little harsh. We throw a couple of one-dollar bills wrapped in a twenty in the offering ...

When they make movies in Hollywood, the director will have an assistant with a black-and-white clapperboard stand in front of th ...

or mine and wished He saw someone else. Every time we fake it and aren’t authentic, we make God’s love for us look fake too. He ...