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…
Our despair and God’s timing A broken world I love, as Paul Harvey says, to be able to share “the rest of the story.” A little over a year ago, I posted a blog about when God is silent. A woman named …
Putting missionaries in harm’s way Missions What a summer it’s been! Karen and I are doing a debrief in Guatemala now, but it’s gotten a little crazy elsewhere in our world. This …
The link between discipling and missions Discipling In 2002 I took 21 people to Peru for a month to plant five churches. Last month I met with one of them whose future changed forever one evening. I had felt t…
