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…
The importance of humility Spiritual Formation I’ve watched those who look a lot like Jesus to me and those who are, in John Eldredge’s words, just “posers.” I suppose there are a lot reasons for the diff…
How I got involved in Swaziland Eswatini / Swaziland When the idea to take on the worst AIDS problem in the world came, it required that I basically take a sabbatical from my regular life. It w…
The dangers of dependency on a mission trip (part 3) Short-term missions Third in a series on the issue of dependency focuses on why it can backfire on your group. For the participants of the sending church, a sense of dependen…
