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…
Becoming like little children Spiritual Formation What do you suppose Jesus meant when he said, “I can guarantee this truth: Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdo…
Jesus and the kingdom – what he meant Kingdom Reality Jesus is poorly understood by Evangelicals on the subject of the Kingdom. Buechner lends us a helping hand here. It is not a place, of course, b…
Celebrating Leah’s life My Life Let me tell you about my daughter, Leah. She’s our youngest child. She turns 18 this week and we’re celebrating her life. Yesterday, dressed to kill, the Bar…