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…
Stop praying against the enemy Fighting your enemy This morning I fly to Colorado – it seems I’m always leaving somewhere. And in a way, that’s not bad. In an earlier blog I wrote about God taking us out to b…
The Church Lady says: Be unoffendable Living Free One of the things that made the Church Lady so funny was her “Superior Dance.” She put her hands on her hips, pursed her lips, and scooted like Little Richar…
July 4 – are we losing our independence? Living Free We’re celebrating independence today, but are we really free? In a number of ways we’re less free as a nation than we were just three years ago. For example,…
