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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…
Unplugging the cyborg self Abandon I remember in 1984 watching “The Terminator” in the theater. Machines take over the world and cyborgs (part human, part machine) are their instrument of dest…
How to Build a Culture of Grace Culture and Faith Within a week of the team coming together, they felt safe enough to begin sharing some of the secrets they’d kept hidden for much of their lives. One young …
Sara Was Abandoned and Needed Someone to Care (#3) Story telling Sara needed help. She needed someone to care. That someone was Kristen Paulick, a racer ministering in the Philippines. Sara’s situation was so horrible, K…