Everybody, Always

CHAPTER 8 The Pizza Place What we’ve spent our time collecting might not be worth it. There’s a pizza place near our house. I lo ...

flash and a few red tickets roll out of the game. You can cash in these tickets for prizes at a booth near the door if you want ...

God is doing in the world, it doesn’t matter anymore. There’s an organization I started years ago. The website said something ab ...

you have too. But for many, when they think of missionaries, they think of Spaniards with chest armor, a galleon, and the flu—an ...

whacked relationship. What if we simply talked about the things we love? People do that with sports and cars and music and food. ...

we’re loved, not because we earned it. ...

CHAPTER 9 From the Lighthouse Window Everyone hits a couple of wrong notes; keep playing your song. My parents made me take pian ...

perfectly curled like an American bald eagle. He even crossed his hands over each other as he played, like they do in the movies ...

kid, scared to start playing again and terrified I’d stop if I did. Nevertheless, I decided I’d make another run at “From the Li ...

My friends and I have been trying a live-event experiment called “Living Room.” It’s a place that doesn’t have any stages. We ha ...

It reminded us about how God didn’t pick Jerusalem. He picked relatively unappreciated places like Bethlehem and Nazareth to gat ...

people, not away. There is a quiet confidence in knowing we all hit a couple of wrong notes here and there. The report card on o ...

CHAPTER 10 Three Green Lights We don’t need as much confirmation as we think we do. I spend a lot of time on planes. I mean, a l ...

hitting anything. It turns out whenever you’re going to take to the skies, the first thing you do is figure out the tallest obst ...

wants something different for us. His goal is never that we’ll come back the same. He’s hoping we’ll return more dependent on Hi ...

having the time of their lives. But me? I was just ready for bed. The flight home was uneventful. I didn’t do any barrel rolls o ...

landed the plane without a nose gear, it wouldn’t end well. If I stayed in the air, I’d run out of fuel and it’d probably end wo ...

I don’t think God uses card tricks to get our attention. Rather, He gives us hopes and dreams and desires. He gives us tenacity ...

those people in your life and lean on them a little. Be more vulnerable and transparent than you think you have the wheels for. ...

I reached zero in my mental countdown. There was a bounce. The front wheel was there. I started whooping and hollering and laugh ...