Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'