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…
AIM: After 20 years it’s still about discipleship Mobilization This month a lot of people showed up in Gainesville to help Karen and I celebrate AIM’s 20 years of existence. It was kind of like the best aspects of a wedd…
Get yourself a guide Discipling The role of a discipler looks a lot like the role of a guide. A guide helps us see the way forward. Sometimes we look at our lives and feel like we’re living…
Fathers, bless your children Fathering & Men’s issues When my children reached the age of graduating high school and going out into the big, bad world, I knew that of all the graduation gifts I could give them, …