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…
Blessing Your Father, Blessing Your Grandson Community and Covenant We are in a season where people are walking isolated and uncovered. Separated from their community and friends – lonely, in a vulnerable place. Broken pa…
Becoming that which you hate Living Free “You’re just like your mother.” If you’ve ever blessed your wife with those five words, comparing the woman of your dreams to your frumpy mother-in-law, t…
Imparting spiritual gifts Discipling I wrote this reflection just before leaving Africa: As the sun slides behind the green hills of Manzini and dissolves into an orange glow, Karen and I ar…
