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…
Racial Reconciliation on an Interpersonal Level Justice issues I’ve spent the past twelve years immersed in predominantly white spaces. As a result, most of the friendships I’ve built over the years are with white peop…
If Leah can do it, you can too Dealing with junk in our lives Ever feel like life is just too hard? Sometimes it feels like the deck is stacked against you and no matter how you try, you can’t win. You’ve tried in…
Taking risks Abandon To the degree you and I are living lives that are less than God's dream for us, we need a change. But there's the rub – that usually involve…