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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…
When friends die Wounded healers Half an hour ago at 6:10 a.m., my phone rang. It was Estie with the news that our friend had died. I’m going to wait to talk about what our friend meant t…
It’s Time to Kill the Cowboy Community and Covenant Cowboys are at home, not with people, but out on the range, with deer and antelope. Descended from revolutionaries who declared independence, cowboy…
‘What Will You Do With Your One Life?’ Finding your call When I was 37, I sat across from a young man named Miguel in the dusty streets of Tampico, Mexico. He showed me the scar on his stomach where someone had s…
