03.20.2025 – Parenting – 7 Comments on Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip In 2002, our oldest child, Talia, was graduating high school. Whatever final touches we wanted to put on the pare…
03.13.2025 – Better Living – 8 Comments on 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage My wife Karen is a therapist who sees a lot of couples whose relationship is in trouble. They are struggling and …
03.06.2025 – Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions North Carolina Digs Out From Hurricane – You Can Help! Justin Rhodes took a video as Hurricane Helene threatened to wash away his family’s home and farm. A river raged …
02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith Am I a Cultural Christian? One of the questions I’ve wrestled with for much of my life is “What is a Christian?” America is known as a “Chri…
02.20.2025 – Leadership How Do I Know When to Take Action? I’m weird – I spend a lot of time reflecting, but I also tend to make quick decisions. I find that God often spea…
The time is short Better Living I still remember when Billy Graham came to speak to our chapel at Wheaton College in 1979. His topic was “The Time is Short.” He emphasized how quickly life …
Pol Pot and Me: My year of living dangerously Reaching Your Destiny I lead a fairly large and innovative ministry. It didn’t start in 1989 when we got our incorporation papers. If you look back in time, maybe it started ten y…
Free leadership training resources Leadership The world of missions has changed radically in a generation. Whereas the American Church used to carry the lion’s share of the load, the rest of the worl…
