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…
A Marshall Plan to reach young people Intergenerational connection Michael wrote me in response to a blog I posted on the pro’s and con’s of VBS ladies: What if budget were not a a big issue, a church actually prioritized re…
Conflict resolution skills Leadership We were a group of five elders in a church of about 600 people. Our pastor lacked people skills and we had to figure out what to do with him. We sat around t…
What Does Jesus Teach About Missions? Missions Jesus’ last words to his disciples were to give them a mission. “Go and make disciples of all nations,” he said. (Matt. 28:19) “You will be my witnesse…
