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…
Getting perspective from a year’s worth of coal Simplicity Liberates You Yeah, anybody invested in the market is probably a lot poorer than a month ago. My condolences – this is as bad a bear as we’ve had in our modern era. But f…
Authority is often a bad word Discipling “Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that…
5 things I was taught that are wrong Living Free Growing up, I heard stuff that made no sense, so I did the opposite. Sometimes conventional wisdom is wrong. And sometimes, as Hilary Austen said, “Whe…
