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…
Forgiveness as an act of self-love Dealing with junk in our lives I went with my kiddos to see Les Miserables on opening night. And yes, I was blown away by Anne Hathaway's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream." I…
All good things lie upstream Dealing with junk in our lives Many of you reading this are coping with some private pain. Life is hard. Just when you think it’s safe to relax, it whacks you on the backside. Pain is ine…
Helping the Salvation Army to hear God Listening prayer We’re sitting here tonight talking in the living room. Clint Bokelman is telling a story about how he teaches the officers at the Salvation Army in Atlanta t…
