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I’ve been wondering off and on the past few weeks, is our world repenting right now? Most of us have been conditioned to think of repentance as a bad word. F...

How long can the average person stay focused before getting distracted and jumping to something like texting or social media? According to some studies, abou...

As mentioned in our January post, in this 50th year of Teleios we are exploring the concept of Jubilee. Over the coming months, Art, Shawn, board members an...

Seeking Life’s Purpose Perhaps the greatest deception we face each day is that our personal happiness is the purpose of life. It’s a false assumption to thin...

One of the best trips I’ve taken was a Holy Land tour of Israel. Although I often travel to explore historical sites, Israel tops my list for destinations th...

Are you familiar with the term “jubilee”? We weren’t, not really. As the Teleios board gathered in December for a half-day prayer and planning session, the w...

The parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) is a wonderful example of God’s mercy and grace. In the parable, Jesus described a son that had sinned agains...

In early October, 26 men from Seattle went to Tijuana for our 19th consecutive year of house-building service trips with men from Teleios, DADS, and Emerald ...

Along with 8% of the world’s males of Northern European ancestry, I am color blind. As is my brother. Although there are many colors we can see, we frequentl...

As a follower of Jesus I am familiar with the parable of the 4 soils, maybe a little too familiar. In reading through the book of Luke I came to this parable...

“For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh th...

I became a Young Life leader when I was 20 years old. Part of the process was going through “Leader Training” before we were placed at a school to engage in ...

What can the biggest art theft in US history tell us about God’s sovereignty? My favorite painter is Rembrandt. In his only seascape painting, The Storm on t...

“This is one of most transformational things I have ever experienced”. That’s a quote from a number of the men who have participated in our Tijuana service t...

“The goal, Shawn, is to be passionately indifferent about all things except Jesus.” Those were the words spoken to me by a spiritual mentor on a silent retre...

Our hope in the coming months is to send out a short reflection, a couple of times a month, from the two of us as well as some of our board members and other...

For more than 40 years, the men who meet in weekly Teleios groups have received encouragement and friendship for life's ups and downs.  Below, read part of o...

Dear Friends, “Now this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” John 17:3 These are some of Jesus’ la...