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…
Learning to trust God Spiritual Formation Five years ago I posted about something we all struggle with – trusting God. Paradoxically, we encourage one another by sharing our struggle. I probably have…
Deep water: activating your faith Radical Living In yesterday’s blog I talked about Jesus’ call to find a great catch in the deep water. It’s a call he issued first to Peter. But he’s always calling the res…
A better life: Mexican parable Reaching Your Destiny I ran across this little story and thought you’d enjoy it. Too many of us have confused the means and the ends in our lives. We need to consider: what are …
