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…
Jesus and the Fast Forward button on your life Better Living Can anybody relate to the I Love Lucy chocolate wrapping episode? It cracks me up every time. Partly because my life often feels like that way – throwing so …
The new ugly Americans Missions Thirty years ago, when I was just learning to travel, I came face-to-face with a certain type of of fellow traveler that the locals viewed with barely disgui…
Does your church train you? How to Disciple I grew up in a Midwestern church that cared about its people. I went to Bible studies and attended a good Christian college. If teaching were enough, I would…
