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…
Cultivating the habit of thankfulness: Week 2 Blog Community Last weekend was for me an encouraging time on this blog. I proposed that we’d come together as a blog community and practice the habit of thankfulness. It d…
Responding to the magic kingdom Kingdom Reality We just returned from debriefing a team in Thailand. Karen and I are committed to these young people and with each trip we take to meet them somewhere in th…
10 Debriefing Resources Debriefing Jesus did it; so should we. Every mission trip needs a debrief. You go some place on mission. You serve and then come home. If the mission trip did its job,…
