Everybody, Always

in my hand. He told me, “No. Honestly, I need to be around people this week more than ever.” I flew out a few days later and was ...

Sometimes we make church a lot more complicated than Jesus meant for it to be. When I was young, there was a rhyme that went, “H ...

of one another. We can put all the scorecards away. Perhaps if we spent a little more time looking at the Groom, we’d start seei ...

CHAPTER 19 Be. Not. Afraid. When you have all the power, you don’t need all the words. Our family has spent a lot of time in Afr ...

the safeties on their machine guns as I passed, and entered the office through a large doorway. Behind a big wooden desk was a p ...

written Uganda’s constitution when they declared independence from Britain, and he was the second-most powerful man in the count ...

but he got away. He ran outside and melted down on TMZ in front of millions of people. Mercifully, no one knew I was the guy hol ...

talk as we are about what we actually discuss. If you have the right conversation at the right place, you just had the right con ...

ride ended, I turned to him, my arms still up in the air, and asked, “Wasn’t that just like the movie?” The chief justice looked ...

Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal, and India for kids who need an education and for young girls who have been rescued from horrible c ...

confused, lost or lonely, paralyzed or stuck. In those times, He usually didn’t make a big speech. He just said to His people, B ...

CHAPTER 20 Witch Doctors and Witness Stands Courage comes in all sizes. Kabi was head of all the witch doctors in his region of ...

brought to trial in his court. His office felt heavy as we spoke, as if it were weighed down by the tremendous gravity of the mo ...

even more so in this setting in the bush in Uganda. The soldiers surrounded the courthouse as the judge gaveled the room to orde ...

sometimes He shouts it. Whatever the volume, I bet He’s always using the same three words with us: Be. Not. Afraid. When Charlie ...

Jesus was talking to His friends one day and explained how He wanted us to live our lives. He pulled His friends in close and sa ...

after they have been awful to us. Maybe we could even forgive someone, at least on the surface, for a deep hurt they caused. Doi ...

CHAPTER 21 Randy’s Skill God restores what He creates. On the other side of the world, a man walked into the emergency room of a ...

disfigured. The extent of Charlie’s injuries is tough for most to imagine. Justice had been done to Kabi, but Charlie wasn’t who ...

to be able to be a biological father in the future. The kind of restoration needed for those missing body parts was simply beyon ...