As I begin to WRITE this blog, we are en route to Malta. As you READ it, we will be preparing for this weekend’s large festival outreach. For years, we’ve been inspired by the stories of redemption from this island nation: the miraculous circumstances surrounding Paul’s shipwreck (Acts 28) and the heroic courage of the Maltese knights in the Middle Ages. It is a nation with...
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Um… hey Zach…” “What’s up?” I was squinting at my guitar tuner, trying to read the tiny display in the relentless glare of the August sun. “Sorry but…” my wife shook her head, “the iPad just shut down – it said the temperature was too high.” “Seriously?” I paused for the hundredth time to wipe my the sweat out of my eyes with the back of my hand, “Okay… um… lets get it under some shade or...
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“I had gotten so good at stealing that I was soon one of the richest men men in the town.” “That’s incredible…” I leaned back in my chair and put my spoon onto my plate, letting it rest beside a generous portion of spicy eggs and flatbread, “You got that much money just from stealing?” Our team was sharing a late breakfast with a local pastor in the...
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The sky was darkening quickly as the last glow of the sun faded over the high fence on my right. I heard a gull cry as it circled high above the gritty sand of the soccer stadium and dimly remembered that I had been excited this morning when someone had told me that the ocean was directly beyond the fence. But I quickly pushed the memory aside – right now I had a problem to solve. Moving...
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I had been feeling it the whole week. Like a thrum of electricity that I could somehow sense, but couldn’t exactly say why, I just had a SENSE. A sense that God was wanting to do something extraordinary in the lives of the hundreds of young student athletes at the 2017 FCA Iowa Sports Camp. I had been asking for prayer from you - my friends - and really from anyone who would listen....
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