When the Spirit Fell on the Football Team

On a warm Friday afternoon last fall, a line of high school football players wearing red-and-white uniforms sat shoulder-to-boxy-shoulder in the front row of a small church. Although they sported the same jerseys, each had a personal reason for finding themselves here, out of their usual habitat. One teen was living in a hotel, another […]

More Than We Imagine: Business as Kingdom Work

In 2015, I had the privilege of taking a short-term mission trip to Cebu, Philippines. On that trip, I invited my friend, Paul, a successful business developer, to join me. We visited a church community that was planted out of Jackie Pullinger’s ministry in Hong Kong—a ministry known for reaching people trapped in drug addiction […]

A Terrorist Transformed by Christ’s Love

Hassane* was a terrorist from Timbuktu in northern Mali, a large country in the center of West Africa. (Yes, American friends, Timbuktu is a real place.) I met him when I was in Mali in January 2025. Originally, Hassane was a soldier in the Malian army, but he defected and joined a Muslim extremist group […]