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 Arrival of Consequences Better Living For years now, we’ve been a society that has tried to numb or defer pain. You can see it in our addictions. Addictions to noise, to debt, to food, to socia…
Pilgrimage is About What You Leave Behind Journeys In the months ahead, coming out of a season laced with virus and death, we so desperately need a pilgrimage. We need a chance to really reset our lives, …
We’re all volunteers Better Living In previous generations, our survival was at stake. A drought could result in a famine. Most people spent 90% of their disposable income on food. They were s…
