Posted at: 05 October 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 2 Comments

Last week I attended the 10-City Covenant meeting in New York City.  Teams from 6 of the 10-most-populated cities in America were present as well as teams from Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Portland. These teams believe God is leading them to be catalysts for planting missional communities in all the sectors of their cities. The [...]

Posted at: 21 September 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

My husband, Roger, picks up our grandsons, Jax and Jake, from their church's parent's day out program every Tuesday afternoon.  Roger loves to see the boys running toward him yelling "Grandpa!" when the teacher brings them to him.  They're always excited to show him their art projects or tell him about the Bible verses they've [...]

Posted at: 06 September 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 2 Comments

Today I attended a luncheon encouraging churches to partner with their local public schools.  If you regularly read this blog, you know that this is a favorite subject of mine.  I believe God has prepared the way for Christians to play a significant role in transforming our public schools by serving them.  The luncheon, organized [...]

Posted at: 23 August 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

My friend, Lowell, describes himself as a panhandler.  A few weeks ago he showed me his writing notebook.  "City Streets" is one of his essays, and he gave me permission to share it on my blog. Thank you, Lowell, for giving us a glimpse into your life. This place I live, the city streets.  There [...]

Posted at: 09 August 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

I've admired Condoleezza Rice since she served as our National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. You'll recall that she served our nation during the September 11 tragedy and the beginnings of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  She spoke today at Willowcreek's Global Leadership Summit.  I was blessed to [...]

Posted at: 26 July 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

Sometimes I read the wedding announcements in the Sunday edition of the New York Times.  I'm fascinated by the family histories of the couples.  They're often the sons and daughters of CEOs, sports team owners, or well-known philanthropists.  These new husbands and wives are frequently graduates of ivy league colleges and are anticipating bright futures [...]

Posted at: 12 July 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

My birthday was Tuesday, July 10.  That morning I said to my husband, "Wow, I can't believe I'm 54!"  "That's because you're not 54," he said.  "You're 53."  "Oh."  I think I spent a large part of  the last 12 months thinking I was 54.  So since Tuesday, instead of feeling a year older, I [...]

Posted at: 28 June 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 2 Comments

I participated in my first missions project when I was 12 years old.  I had recently completed sixth grade and was now officially in the "youth group" at Calvary Baptist Church, Oak Cliff.  That summer we provided a Vacation Bible School for a smaller church in our community.  I had a great time teaching the [...]

Posted at: 14 June 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 0 Comments

The following is a guest post by Lifechangers summer intern Hayleigh Elmore.  Hayleigh is a member of North Irving Baptist Church and a student at Indiana University.  She serves at Lake Highlands Baptist Church. "Train up a child in the way he shall go; even when he's old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs [...]

Posted at: 31 May 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

I've almost finished reading (again) Ray Bakke's A Theology as Big as the City.  I tend to pick this book up every few years to remind myself of the urban context of so much of the Bible.  With this reading, I was struck by the relevance of an excerpt from A Letter to Diognetus that [...]