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…
You have to go out to go in Short-term missions “He brought us out from there to bring us in.” Deuteronomy 6:23 We’re having a staff conference at the office this week. I spoke to them yesterday after…
When life beats you up and you want to quit Leadership My heart is breaking this morning. I’m wrestling with two things that just happened: First, one of my coworkers made a terrible mistake and overnight has los…
The balance between intimacy and urgency Community and Covenant Intimacy cannot be done quickly. It requires that we take the wristwatch off. Glance at the clock when you’re trying to connect and you put a lid on what hap…
