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…
Smart Phones and Self-Governance Simplicity Liberates You “The fruit of the Spirit is…self-control” (Gal.5:22) “A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.” (Prov. 25:28) I’ve lear…
If Jesus advertised for a youth pastor Youth Ministry For an indicator of the state of youth ministry, just look at the Christian job posting web sites ChurchStaffing.com or ChristianPlacements.com. The latter s…
Excellence in short-term missions Short-term missions Anything being done repetitively on a large scale needs to grapple with the idea of “excellence.” Short-term missions is no exception. The idea of standar…
