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…
Foundations of missions: Our Calling (part 5) Missions Continued from: Foundations of missions: Our Calling (part 4) We’re looking at our calling thru the lens of Paul’s example as found in Acts 26:16: I ha…
The 5 Activations of Jesus Courage, Discipling A lot of people call themselves Christians and they think that God is most interested in the quality of their belief system. Jesus asks us to believe in …
True joy needs true grief Spiritual Formation When Henri Nouwen says “joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth,” he’s hit upon a huge issue. Grief exists with joy on a continuum. Try to li…
