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…
5 Keys to powerful story telling Story telling A friend who lives in one of the most dangerous countries in the world – a place where if they know you are a Christian, they kill you – just wrote me an ema…
Man does not live on bread alone Listening prayer Jesus was in a miserable place. The desert sun scorched his flesh. He had no food to eat. And then, who should he meet there in that vulnerable spot but h…
Debriefing: #7 – Different ways to debrief Debriefing I know I said this would be a 6-part series on debriefing, but the traffic on my blog site was so heavy last week, it seems like many of you have a strong fe…