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…
The world doesn’t end today Kingdom Reality Note that today is that day when the Mayan calendar ends. So as most of you who have survived past regular media-fuled apocolyptic scares know, this is whe…
Responding to people who hate me Living Free I was sitting on my couch on a recent Saturday evening and Dan’s comment to this blog (an old one that had been hanging out on the internet, not bothering an…
Finding your voice Finding your call My dad diagnoses diseases. He’s a world class pathologist who gives the gift of life every day he goes to work in the lab in Kenya. Several years ago som…