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…
Making Sense of Schuylar’s Passing Comfort and Pain For those who loved Schuylar Barnes, watching her fight cancer was excruciating. She wasn’t just fighting for life. She was fighting for all the years to…
Children raising children Poverty One of the things that moves me the most as I travel the world is to see children having to raise their younger siblings. Something happened to mom and dad a…
The cost of surrender Lordship Jesus said, “Anyone who wants to save their life must lose it.” (Matt. 16:25) That’s the language of surrender wrapped in paradox. Surrender is never fu…
