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…
Celebrating your dependence day Lordship I shared these thoughts four years ago in this post and got no feedback. But I liked it and hey, it’s my blog, so here it is again. As we celebrate the …
An inverse relationship between stuff & friends Simplicity Liberates You When you get outside American culture, you see a clearer picture of the things that bog us down. We are probably the most materialistic culture on earth. Ou…
A community of grace Community and Covenant Something happened in our community yesterday that tested us. How would we respond? Would we be a community of grace or would we respond by crushing people’s…
