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…
Living life “palms up” Reaching Your Destiny One of the chief jobs of a parent is to help their children learn two hand motions and to teach them in such a way that they become reflexive and habitual. N…
Peru will change you My Life It’s been an interesting trip to Peru – we’ve seen such pain in the faces of the earthquake victims, yet we have a real shot at bringing hope to their situat…
My worst project – Lesson 4: Poor team preparation Short-term missions This morning (I’m typing this at stinkin’ 6 a.m. – that’s how committed to you guys I am), Karen and I are flying off to Hong Kong to debrief Talia and her W…
