I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. Luke 10:19 (NIV) It was the summer of 2003 and I was in Kabul to complete my first prototype in hope of launching a business to employ Afghan women. In the wee hours of the morning, I…
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His Eye is on the Sparrow
One of the artisans who participated in my first pilot project (2003) in Kabul was a tailoring program student. During our pilot project week together, I learned that Asma* was married with two sons, fourteen and four years old. She’d lost a two-year-old daughter on the arduous trek from Afghanistan to Pakistan, where they fled as refugees following the Taliban takeover….
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A Warning from Heaven—the Day Before 9/11
Something strange happened the day before the terrorist attacks on 9/11—I received a warning from heaven. Opening my Bible to 2 Chronicles 20:2 (NASB1995), I read, “‘A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea.’” King Jehoshaphat had proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah after learning his enemies were marching toward him to ambush his people. He gathered…
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Clues to Your Calling
Why are you here on this earth? What is your purpose? Some people receive their calling in dramatic ways—in an encounter with God or a watershed moment—but whether that lightning-bolt moment has happened for you, you have a purpose on this earth. Would you hold space for these big questions by answering a few others? Who are you? What experiences…
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ICE Detention Centers: Silence is Complicity
Some years ago, on a visit to the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, I was divested of my delusions about what a “detention center” was. This was a high-security prison. My colleagues and I entered through rows of tall chain-link fences, topped and surrounded by razor wire. We left our belongings in a locker and proceeded through a metal…
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Chronic Pain & the Battle to Believe God is Good
If God is good, why is there evil in the world? Plenty has been written on that subject. The answer usually boils down to free will. Humans used the free will God gave them to plunge themselves and the world into a fallen state. We caused harm — to ourselves, others, and the earth . ‘Free will’ as an answer…
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