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…
The Power of Vulnerability Vulnerability and me For much of my life I have fought against the very thing that God wanted from me. He wanted me to recognize that, in the context of the universe, I am incred…
Most difficult relief effort in history Haiti Great article from the New York Times on the complexity of the relief efforts in Haiti. For a reporter’s slides and report of the mass exodus, go here. …
Waiting 4 hours for a glimmer of eternity A broken world In church yesterday, John Blair said, “When we were in Uganda, they took us into a room where 50 people had been waiting for us for four hours.” Then the …
