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About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
Teenage Attitudes
There are two powerful forces that overtake kids in the early pubescent years and account for at least some of the strange behavior that drives parents crazy. The first is social in nature, with incredible pressures being inflicted on adolescentsRead more…
Discipline is Like A Battery
You know, there are those who believe so strongly in the value of positive thinking that they see nothing to be gained from that which is negative. Well, I respectfully disagree. It’s the balance between the positive and the negativeRead more…
Lost in Space: The Teen Years
Sometimes raising teenagers can be like sending an astronaut into space. You may remember the very early space probes launched from Cape Canaveral in the 1960s that created anxiety for the safety of the astronaut. It was especially intense whenRead more…
Diffusing the Teenage Time Bomb
Parents need to make a concerted effort to build bridges to their kids, starting very early to have fun as a family, laughing and talking and doing things that bond the generations together. That’s the best way I know toRead more…
Crossing The Barbed-Wire Fence
Isn’t it strange how when we’re disturbed over some family problem, we sometimes choose the most obscure or roundabout ways of saying so. I saw a good cartoon recently that showed a double bed to which the wife had nailedRead more…
Anticipating Problems in Marriage
There are some facts of nature that never fail to astound me. For instance, did you know that before it snows, fir trees will retract their branches so the weight of the snow they’ll have to bear is reduced?
Giving the Audio Word of God to Those Who Cannot Read!
4.35 billion people in the world DO NOT READ. HOW WILL THEY ENGAGE WITH GOD’S WORD? The Gutenberg Press enabled a Scripture literacy revolution, making the full Bible available to every person – who could read. But today, 63% ofRead more…
Enabling Participation
Just posting a link to a recent Grove Booklet in the youth seriese that I have written and has been published. It is called Enabling Participation, I have pasted a short synopsis below and hope it might prove useful inRead more…
Essential Foundations of Partnering Initiatives
Partnerships do not just happen by themselves. Some catalyst sparks them into being. In an ideal world, Christian churches, ministries, and organizations would spontaneously choose to work together to advance the Kingdom of God and see millions become members ofRead more…