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…
Giving roses to prostitutes Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking Karen and I are turning in after a long day out here in California. What a crazy week! We returned from Cambodia on Monday and watched Wall St. tumble into c…
Update on “What do you do when you see pain?” Poverty A number of you responded to my blog and are praying. I received this email from the parents after we’d gotten in touch with a local pastor who called. A …
God Wants To Teach Us to Fight Fighting your enemy What a paradoxical world we live in. The fight between conservatives and liberals plays out on TVs every day. We see school shootings and synagogue shootings…
