When I boarded the international flight as a naïve, newly graduated cross-cultural missions major, little did I know just how steeped in cross-cultural communication my life was to become. At the time, I was eager to spend six months serving the Lord on a college campus in Cape Town, South Africa—more than 8,000 miles away from…
No one doubts that, when the alarm system of depression sounds, your life is profoundly affected. Alarms are intended as wake-up calls to direct your attention to either something within yourself, something within your relationships, or something within your circumstances (often all three) that needs to change in order to have a satisfying life. As…
I recently came across the Bible I used from 1996-2006. Inside the front cover, I had written out a sermon outline on servanthood preached at some point during that decade. As I read through my pastor’s points again, all of these years later, they both convicted and encouraged me greatly. Working in ministry can be…
