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…
Take This Smart Phone Addiction Quiz Simplicity Liberates You Are you addicted to your smartphone? Take the quick 12 question quiz below to find out! Dr. James Roberts, writing in Yahoo, makes the following…
Why do we have to go thru pain? A broken world Today as you read this, Karen and I are en route to Africa – the land of great joy and great pain. Just outside the Joburg airport where we’ll touch dow…
Teenagers struggling to find mentors Discipling When our children were growing up, especially during their adolescence, Karen and i sensed that we needed help. Things were actually going well for us as par…