Hope Has No Borders
I recently returned from Anchorage, Alaska, where I did several school assembly programs and outreaches. I wanted to introduce you to two people I met…
Miles is 17 years old and is at a school called SAVE, an alternative school for those who are not expected to graduate from high school. Most are homeless, or as they call them in Alaska, couch surfers. Students will stay at different friend’s houses, moving from couch to couch, yet have no [...]
A Confession From the Road
I have a confession to make. I’ve been critical of the church. As a traveling itinerant evangelist, I have been all over the United States and abroad, and I’ve fallen into the trap of seeing what’s wrong with the church. When I hear that less that 2% of America’s youth are in church on a given Sunday, and I hear story after story of people who have walked away from Christ because they’ve been wounded by the [...]
More or Less
If you’ve been in touch with this ministry at all you know that I have a burning passion inside me. People have described it like a fire similar to the one talked about in Jeremiah. It’s in my bones and it can’t be put out.
I always want to do more for the Kingdom. I always want to see who we can touch. But sometimes I feel God saying, “Less is more.” I know that we can do [...]
Called to Love: No Disclaimers
I just finished an assembly program with 400 junior high students. There are some days when I feel the pain of the kids that I speak to more than others. Today is one of those days. I can’t stop crying. I can’t stop hurting. It’s like I feel what they’re feeling, and I sense the hopelessness of their questions, “Why not just die? Why not just end it all?”
In my assembly program I talked about bullying and showing respect. A [...]
Junior High Kid Lost
I suspect that every parent can remember the moment and knows the emotion of being in a crowded area, suddenly realizing that you don’t know where your child is. Ours was at Disneyland when our kids were small. My son, David, disappeared. It was only five minutes, but it was among the most agonizing five minutes of my life, filled with fear, panic and despair.
My mind raced with irrational thoughts of my son wandering away and falling into the moat [...]
A Story from the Air
A friend asked me, “Where do you live?” I jokingly said, “My wife says I live on Delta Airlines.” They laughed, but I’m not laughing as I’m sitting in a cramped airline seat again as I write this.
“A Redeye flight” seems like an appropriate name as I fly through the night, having left San Francisco at 11:00PM, unable to sleep, yet unable to stay awake either. I’m in a land somewhere in between. I will fly into Green Bay at [...]
Fruit and the Fruit that Remains
School has been out for the summer, but one thing that remains the same at Life Promotions throughout every season is evangelism. Our heart is to reach youth with the gospel before age 18. You may have heard me say it before, but I truly mean it: I am more passionate and laser-focused toward that end goal than ever.
For the summer, the venues look a little different. We may be at festivals instead of schools and rallies, but let it [...]
Story from the Home
Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:8, “We loved you so much that we gave you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.”
Many of you know my special needs sister, Lois, or have seen her with me on some of my speaking trips when I’ve brought her on stage. Lois has lived with our family for the past 11 years since my parents passed away. Our youngest child, Tim, is 19 and just finished his first year of [...]
From Sea to Shining Sea
I wrote this in mid-May after waking up in Sacramento, CA, and we still had 8 cities left on a tour I was speaking for. On the tour with me were Carlos Whitaker, Disciple, Kutless & the Newsboys. We had been in 17 cities already, and in front of over 30,000 people.
But let me back up a bit. On April 8th I had just finished spending four days in British Columbia doing eight school assembly programs and four rallies, seeing [...]
Senior Project: A Family’s Ripple Effect
It all started with a young man named Clark Grigg, who heard me speak at Creation Festival in the state of Washington. I challenged the youth in attendance to team up with Life Promotions to reach their friends for Christ in their schools. Clark took up the challenge and began planning and organizing school assembly programs for his school as his senior project. He also organized a rally where we were able to share the gospel. That [...]