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 […]

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, […]

What temptations are seeking to cripple us during this Pandemic and how do we fight them? How is the temptation to test God endangering many lives? “Faith over Fear” has been the rallying cry across the land, especially in churches that believe the Holy Spirit is real and that Jesus still has the power to […]

Thoughts One of the board members for Restore Life, the organization I lead, recently turned me on to a book she loved by Howard Thurman called “Meditations of the Heart.” I’ve been reading it in the early morning watch as this new year gets started, and God has been using it to speak wonderful things […]