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This is a Psalm 20 note … May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. May we shout for joy over your victory! Psalm 20SHOUT for joy because God has won a great victory in Vietnam! All according to His plans, not ours.We were concerned about going. The coronavirus has decimated tourism by 70 percent. Schools are closed. Villages are quarantined. People everywhere in masks. Palpable fear. Public meetings cancelled. Churches cancelled services. I’ve used more hand sanitizer in the past week than in the past ten years. The virus is a real threat.We wondered if...

Globally, the coronavirus is wreaking deadly havoc. Two days ago in Barcelona, a city that has never had a case of the virus—not one in the entire nation—they cancelled the largest technology convention in the world, 100,000 attendees. The deadly coronavirus centered in Wuhan, China, is now affecting the entire planet. I walked through the Hong Kong airport last Monday and saw half-full restaurants, half-empty flights, everyone in breathing masks. I wore a 3M N95-rated mask I had purchased at Lowe’s before I left. I took the precautions, wore the mask, wiped down surfaces, repeatedly used hand sanitizer. A flight attendant...

As Fr. Anthony Vu, a Vietnamese parochial vicar, conducted the 7am Sunday mass at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Newport Beach, a dad and his daughter slipped in the back to pray and receive communion. That was what Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi did on Sunday morning, January 26, just before boarding a helicopter to her game north of Los Angeles, California. A few hours later the world was shocked at news that the basketball legend, his daughter and six other friends perished along with the pilot in a terrible and tragic crash. More than all his awards and...

My dad taught me, “A half-truth is a whole lie.” Therein sits the largest issue for us. Our world operates in shadows and nuances of truth. It even has a name, “spin.” The Kingdom operates on bright, radiant, vivid truth. Truth is the result of being fully exposed to God’s Word. Immersing ourselves in the Word, the truth, causes our hearts to lean into truth. Men and nations are not great by virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.  Character is always the issue—in family life, marriage, profession, and in our success or failure as men and nations. And...

What started out as two pastors' summits is now five. Momentum is building in Vietnam. You and I are making a difference.  I was knocked out by the video made by the pastors in Ho Chi Minh City, posted below. Our brothers are working hard for the five major pastors summits coming up in just a few weeks. Will you help fulfill the dreams of hundreds of men, their families, and their churches? There's an opportunity at the bottom. There are so many reasons to be involved... Two more workbooks plus the book Strong Men in Tough Times are translated into Vietnamese. Wow. They are praying....