It was a sunny spring day in Jerusalem, and the sky was such a bright, clear blue that, even with my tinted sunglasses, I was squinting and blinking in the light.
It was only morning, but my legs were already starting to feel heavy in the desert sun…
Read More“So are you still planning to fly?”
I looked up and let my book fall closed on my lap, keeping a finger between the pages to mark my place. I reached up and clumsily pulled an iPhone earbud from my right ear.
“Sorry, pardon me?”
“I was just wondering if you two were still planning to fly tonight? I mean after they just announced the travel ban?”…
I was clinging to a tiny, rough bump on an otherwise smooth rock face several hundred feet above the ground.
I was clinging to a tiny, rough bump on an otherwise smooth rock face several hundred feet above the ground.
The muscles in my forearms were burning from exertion and my calves were beginning to shake - I pressed my body tighter against the dusty rock, ignoring the sharp heat of the sun-baked granite against my skin…
We’re pretty excited about this:
We’ve begun filming for our brand new podcast, and we’ve already had some great on-camera discussions (in plain, uncomplicated language) about the practical aspects of following Jesus.
We're also realizing that this has the potential to be a very valuable resource for a lot of people.
In fact, after filming our VERY FIRST episode, a very dear friend of ours (who has been following Jesus for years) approached us with an honest vulnerable question about a foundational principle of Christianity…
Recently, we’ve been thinking a lot about the people who say yes to Jesus, but still have a lot of deep and challenging questions about what it means to follow Jesus…
Just like me, as a teenager in my attic.
And so after a lot of prayer and discussion, we’ve decided to do an experiment…
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 in front of me…
A few weeks ago, I had to review and save our last few years of “God Stories” from around the world.
All 182 of them.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I was a little surprised at how encouraging it was to look back on the ways that God has moved over the last seven years.
So I decided to start 2020 with a quick (under 4 minute) video recap of our whirlwind past year for those who haven’t seen it, and one of my favorite God stories from 2019 - it's Kailah's story of hardship in victory in Pattaya, Thailand from several months ago.
And it gets me every time.
Since we're now entering a whole new decade, Kailah and Zach thought it might be a good idea to record an encouraging video message for all of our friends...
Honestly, we think the clip turned out fairly well, but we also discovered something important during our quick video shoot: every time there is a camera pointed at us, we seem to do a lot of ridiculous stuff.
So we decided to share THAT too…
