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…
Confronting the terror of Ziklag Courage Yesterday’s blog described David’s horrific experience of having his tribe ravaged at Ziklag (1 Samuel 30). Maybe you’ve lived a Mayberry RFD life of white p…
Holding a statistic vs. reading it Reaching Your Destiny I asked Marc Shifano, “How did your trip to Swaziland impact you?” He answered, “I’d read the statistics. But then I traveled to Swaziland and I held a st…
Missed encounters with the supernatural Spiritual Formation Matt Snyder wrote the following. I like the way he shows his humanity. We’re all struggling to hear God and give him control in different ways. It’s helpful …
