In a recent debate with someone close to me, as I was lamenting the consequences of greed-driven American imperialism, a sharp statement was thrown my way: “You really hate America, don’t you?” It made me pause. It forced me to sit down and unpack why an honest, well-documented assessment of an evil done by fellow Americans under the banner of our flag would be met with that kind of defensive reflex.

It is a curious and tragic paradox of the human condition that we seem to reserve our deepest wells of patience for people we do not know, while serving the dregs of our frustration to the people we love the most. It is alarming to me how easy it is to offer a polite smile to a grocery clerk when they make a mistake, yet absolutely eviscerate my spouse or children when they do the exact same thing. How can I be kind to strangers but mean to my own flesh and blood or my spouse who I vowed to love “until death do us part?”

My Grandfather, William T. Iverson, (95 years old now) has always been a mystic on a mission to love the hell out of humanity and see the shalom (holistic peace) of the Kingdom of God be put on display everywhere he went and in everything he did… Most of what I saw him doing my […]

Our ninth child… we are excited to welcome her into our family. Her name has a profound meaning to us. We hope it encourages you as you read about it. In the fall of 2020 we lost her older sister. We grieved Sky Philia Iverson and the life she never got to live. The months […]

What will you do with your breath? That’s the question of our times. That’s the question I hear our suffocating Savior Jesus asking us from the cross.

In the midst of life as we know it shutting down, something deeper is happening beneath the service in the heart of humanity… a necessary exposure and cleansing… a shifting in the priorities of our hearts… an awakening. My mother, who has raised 9 kids on the mission field of Japan and watched us grow, […]

Live! Sunday 3.29.2020 at 11:00 am 2 Chronicles 7:13–14 (NLT)13At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn […]