One of the most common questions we are asked here at Wild at Heart is, “What do you do for church?”
Sometimes the question is posed as a sort of test – somewhere, somebody got the idea we are opposed to church. Not at all – we love the...
READ MORE
John Eldredge
One of the most common questions we are asked here at Wild at Heart is, “What do you do for church?”
Sometimes the question is posed as a sort of test – somewhere, somebody got the idea we are opposed to church. Not at all – we love the...
READ MORECraig McConnell
Hey, it’s not uncommon to fight off a little cold right?
For a week I was snorting, sneezing, sniffling… tossing and turning through the night; downing vitamin C, guzzling water, doing the Zicam… and praying like a saint. Like a saint...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
So, Stasi and I have been writing a book together for the past many months. (It’s on marriage). Through the holidays I was pretty much chained to the computer, trying to get it done by January 15. I took Christmas Eve and day off, and New Years...
READ MORECraig McConnell
I’m standing alongside Manhattan Beach Blvd. December 23rd waving greetoriously* to sore seated commuters in holiday traffic who are hoping they’ll make it through the intersection during the next green light… to hope again at the next...
READ MORECraig McConnell
This is the 2008 McConnell Christmas Letter
I’m writing this Thanksgiving Weekend in the South Bay. We’ve been with our daughters, son-in-laws, granddaughters and friends enjoying ourselves...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
One my all time favorite Christmas carols is “O Holy Night.” I look forward to the soloist singing it at church on Christmas eve. I was thinking about it again this year, and discovered the most stunning and disruptive line… O holy night! The...
READ MORECraig McConnell
Once again I’m struck by my inability to express in words something I’ve seen, felt, touched or heard. On a 747 at 47,000 feet, somewhere over the rainbow between Los Angeles and Sydney Australia, I’m...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
Stasi corralled me yesterday into helping her with the Christmas cards.
In our home, as in every marriage, we have a necessary division of labor. I hang the lights. Christmas cards are Stasi’s domain. But, I was home yesterday, resting...
READ MORECraig McConnell
I am in Australia with the Wild at Heart team about to begin our four day Boot Camp. A good part of the day is spent preparing my heart and words for the sessions I lead. I often suffer from a spiritual amnesia: forgetting much about God... his...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
In just a few days our team is heading out to Australia for a Wild at Heart Boot Camp. Last year was a phenomenal event, with tremendous breathrough for men. We felt God leading us to come back for another go. It is the launching of a movement...
READ MORECraig McConnell
I was asked by a friend to speak to his seminary class on Desire & Addiction. Knowing a bit about both I agreed. After hearing that the class is one hour and fifty minutes long I recklessly do a...
READ MORECraig McConnell
It’s Tuesday evening and I’m spent after a full day chasing my tail… accomplishing zero-zip-nada-nothing. I’m living life large on 3 cylinders futzing around the house hoping that by the time I plop my haggard soul into bed I will have, in...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
Well, it’s Wednesday.
Folks are either elated or really ticked, for all sorts of reasons. How sad to see this country so deeply divided. How sad to see the Church so deeply divided.
We were having a ministry fast day (something we...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
There is so much swirling around the coming elections. I don’t want to add a bit to the emotional roller coaster. So here is a thought that might help us as we make some pretty important decisions:
There is a sort of “moral equivalency”...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
Where have the past few weeks gone?
I’m trying to pause, and assess. Take stock. Where did all my time go? What have I been doing? I have to pull out my calendar to even remember.
Oh, that’s right. The first of this month we had a...
READ MORECraig McConnell
Given the economic times and all it is stirring up in my heart I went rummaging through my journals looking for battles fought, lessons learned and God’s hand in previous times. This is a journal excerpt from July 8,9, 2007
... READ MORECraig McConnell
de·lete /d?'lit/ [di-leet] –verb (used with object), to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge; to destroy.
Spent an hour writing out a pretty vulnerable story for this blog. I was in the zone;... READ MORECraig McConnell
Somewhere in the friendly skies between Denver and Sacramento I’m trounced/ambushed by an internal hysteria over not being...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
I’m finding I have to say “no” a lot these days.
And I’m wondering, why is it so hard?
I mean, I realize there’s only so much of me to go around. I understand the need for “margin” in my life. And I try to walk with God, ask him...
READ MORE