One of the hardest things about cross-cultural ministry is realizing how incapable we are.

I’ve been trying to write this devotional for several weeks now. I have written and re-written many different drafts. Then I sat and reflected on these verses:

I began that Monday morning furiously writing down our family’s crazy schedules to get as organized as possible. I texted the five friends I had been meaning to get back to for months. I said a prayer for the many needs that had come up over the w...

I was assembling several heavy-duty steel shelving units. Over the years, I’d put together numerous pieces of Ikea furniture, a breeze compared to the task before me. The directions were complicated, and the parts didn’t want to fit together smoot...