The 3 Balancing Acts of Leadership

Leadership, as I’ve come to understand it, is a balancing act. When you’re the person in charge, every day there could be 100 forces pulling you in different directions. And this is not to mention all the things that are important to you outside of work...

The Danger When You Live for Others’ Approval

A group of preschoolers arrived as my friend, Bob, and I were sitting on the bleachers just outside the racquetball court and trying to catch our breath between games. Race-running, soccer-ball-kicking, tricycle-riding and twirling-dancing preschool children spread...

How Utah’s Pando Forest is Like the Church

I spent some time photographing at Great Basin National Park in Nevada with a friend last year. As we got to the end of our time there, my friend asked if I would mind if we stopped at the Pando forest in Utah on the way back. I had never heard of it, so he told me of...

BWA Congress exits to new doors

The 2015 Baptist World Congress came to a rollicking conclusion in Durban Sunday morning as participants gathered for prayer, praise, a call to unity from General Secretary Neville Callam, and a rousing sermon from Joel Gregory. Citing 1 Corinthians 15:9, Gregory...

BWA celebrates new president

South African pastor Ngwedla Paul Msiza was officially installed as president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) in ceremonies at the Durban International Convention Center Saturday morning. Msiza is the second person from Africa to serve as president. His term will...

Gospel Compels You to Tear Down Walls

One of the greatest events in modern history was the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For almost three decades, this wall stood as a visual reminder of the hostilities that existed between the parties on either side of the wall. The demolishing of this wall...