Focus on Focus: Bible KidVentures
After just a couple of weeks, Disney’s Maleficent has already made around $130 million. The reason the film has been a box office hit—besides the star wattage of Angelina Jolie and the power of Disney’s branding muscle—is because people familiar with the Sleeping Beauty saga wanted to get the backstory of the evil, witchy […]
Focus Friday: Questions Your Kids Probably Have About Christianity
Last Thanksgiving my wife and I joined six friends for an 11-day tour of Israel. Rather than respond to a postcard in the mail for a typical Holy Land tour and travel around in a huge bus, I wanted a more intimate (and less expensive!) affair. When I couldn’t find what I wanted in […]
Signed, Sealed & Delivered to Vancouver
I love my job! I could go on and on about why, but the short version revolves around the fact that I head up a team of talented professionals, and together we’re making a difference each and every day in peoples’ lives. There’s nothing more satisfying than that! If that wasn’t enough, I’ve also been […]
Focus Friday: In Pursuit of Boundless’ Gathering for Single Young Adults
My wife and I drive nearly 40 minutes to attend church. We pass a lot of good houses of worship on the way. But for us, it’s worth the drive. Our church is just that … our church. It’s home. It’s family. It’s a place where we belong. But we haven’t always felt that way. […]
Focus Friday: Lead Your Family Like Jesus
Years ago, my wife, Leesa and I planned a weeklong backpacking trip with two friends. For a number of reasons, we chose the San Juan mountains of Colorado for this getaway: First, the incredible beauty. Second, none of us had ever backpacked there. Third, there’s a narrow-gauge railway that runs through this wilderness area […]
Focus Friday: Cancelled … Funeral Service for the Traditional Family
Last fall, The Christian Science Monitor published a story titled, “Modern Family Redefined: Say ‘Goodbye’ to the Typical American Family.” The lead-in bumper to this piece read: The American modern family no longer resembles the old vision of a “traditional family,” says a new study from Ohio State University; marriages are in decline, divorces on […]
The City of David, Now in 3-D
As a person who’s seen approximately 500 films since January 2011, going to a movie on my days off is not high on my priority list. Even when I do make an exception, it’s incredibly rare that I do so on Sundays. After church, all I want to do is come home and veg out. […]
Focus Friday: How Would You Like Your Snake Cooked?
At the local fast-food drive-through: “Welcome to Fishy Town. May I take your order?” says the voice through the speaker. “Yeah, can I get the fish and … um… some bread, please?” says the driver. “All right, that’s a snake with a side of rocks. Would you like that snake with tomato or onions?” […]
Focus Friday: That the World May Know
For decades, I have wanted to visit Israel. But like many of us, there always seemed to be something standing in the way. Finances. Time. Raising kids. Well, that all changed last Thanksgiving when (finally!) my wife and I boarded a flight for Tel Aviv for 11 days (the time in Israel was 11 […]
Focus Friday: Becoming a Kingdom Woman
A couple of Sundays ago my wife and I invited one of the “girls” from the youth group we led back in the ’80s to join us for church and lunch. We hadn’t seen Dawn in a while and it was great getting caught up and hearing about what the Lord is doing in […]