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 blessing of a negative debrief Spiritual Coaching This blog belongs with my earlier series on debriefs. 18 years ago after a really difficult and mistake-filled mission project that I led, one of the part…
Responding to critics of short-term missions Short-term missions We’re at the high point of the short-term missions summer season. Hundreds of thousands of young people have fanned out around the world to bring hope in the…
Don’t Grow Weary In Doing Good! Redemption So many of you are not just tired, you are weary! 30 years ago I learned a lesson of what to do when you feel that way. I shared it a few years back on t…
