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…
We’ll pray for & disciple you Blog Community Check out the new buttons at the top of the blog offering prayer, counsel and discipleship. It’s the result of your feedback when I asked about repurposing t…
When your spiritual gift is not a gift Spiritual Formation Spiritual gifts can be wonderful and confusing – connecting us deeply to God and simultaneously dividing us from our brother. Whole denominations have sprung…
Breaking the power of cynicism Better Living I’ve spent too many years as a Jesus-follower mired in the sin of unbelief. What’s worse, I allowed it to bleed over into my attitude, cynical about things I…