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…
Getting honest about life behind the podium Leadership I’m off today to speak at another Youth Specialties conference – Pittsburgh this time. If you’re at the conference, give me a shout and we’ll do coffee. I d…
Group pride rooted in insecurity Identity issues So much of what we do is rooted in our addiction to the false self. Many of us come out of a background of pain that told us we were inadequate and would nev…
5 Lessons From a Decade Hiking the Camino Journeys I remember the first day I hiked the Camino de Santiago nearly 10 years ago. It was early in May – the air was crisp as we set out on the path. As we …
