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…
How do you hire great people? Leadership In general, in ministry, we do as bad or worse in hiring people as those in business do. If we followed Jesus’ model of walking with people before selecting…
From gutter to grace: Jennifer Smith’s story Portraits of Disciplers The bottom came for Jennifer when she looked death straight in the face and fled in terror. Now death flees as Jennifer raises her voice to command life into…
Where is God in the midst of tragedy? My Life There are no great answers when tragedy hits. As a parent of a child who has been suddenly killed, you’re left sifting through the memories hoping for an…
