Will she be okay? She’ll miss home. How long does the process take? What does Google say? Suppose it takes longer than expected? I don’t want her to miss the holidays at home. She’s already missing her birthday with us… Sigh.

I’ve bought the lie, not just once but multiple times. The book of Romans (Romans 12:2) tells us we need our mind to be transformed, and that’s a continual need, a continual practice. Many of our cultures whisper and even shout that we need to be ...

Sometimes overseas, I felt like a stretched-out rubber band. I felt the loss of any emotional elasticity to pop back into place, to be okay again.

Three years ago, I began having chronic migraines–the kind of chronic that would last for weeks on end. I would gather with friends, those I was discipling/mobilizing, and my own family with what felt like needles in my forehead, nausea flooding m...