We must start talking differently about poverty – and start doing something differently.

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.

And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age: Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.

When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction.

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

If you’re wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.