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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…
How to go to a new level Better Living I like a challenge. I like to compete. If I'm at one level now, I want to go to the next level, whatever that may be. This presented a problem when I…
A 40% drop in empathy in college students 42nd Generation Rhett Smith brought a recent study to my attention. It shows a big drop in empathy among young people. “We found the biggest drop in empathy after the yea…
Evil is Personal and Wants to Destroy You Fighting your enemy Adventures, the organization I run, recently acquired a guesthouse in Cambodia. Along with it, it appears that we acquired some residents that came with th…