Six of us sat in the Asian-accented hotel room this past Saturday night from 9 PM till midnight. We had just participated in six days of strategic gatherings to partner, learn and develop new ways to share Christ to the ends of the earth. Our hosts, Carol and Calvin Conkey, had created a warm setting […]
A Story and a Prayer for the Next Generation Read More »
I love 60% of what I do every day. The other 40% I tolerate. I love strategy, developing new initiatives, expanding the scope of the Visual Story Network, meeting new people, working with teams, etc. Every role has downsides. I have to manage a lot of detail. I manage my own schedule, book my own
Do You Like 50% of Your Job? Read More »
I am not particularly philosophical. I remember my mind being bent by St. Augustine’s treatise on time in his “Confessions.” Our sense of time makes us unique under the heavens. Traveling outside of fixed time has been a great story device in print and on the screen. It is built into our DNA to want
Each January I ask the Lord for a new spiritual focus for the year. I pray the theme will increasingly permeate my life as the months go by. Here is my theme from last year… A Slave of Christ (2013) This year it came at 6:40 a.m. January 25, the morning after our Friday night
Better to Give Than to Get – My 2014 Theme Read More »
“A Cry From Iran” is the most sacred film I have ever seen. This well-documented story of the martyrs from the church in Iran from 1990 to 2007 revolves around Rev. Haik Hovsepian’s life and his sacrificial act of love to save his friend and fellow Iranian pastor Mehdi Dibaj from imminent execution in 1994.
It’s cold in the dim corridor as I walk to room 6 for my retreat at Mission San Luis Rey. As in prior years, I’m the only soul spending the night in the historic mission on the first Thursday of the New Year. I light a candle in my dark room, open my guitar case,
A Slave of Christ – My 2013 Theme Read More »