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 art of the 24-hour board meeting Leadership Anybody in ministry needs to understand the basics about boards – I’ve watched boards wreck ministries and I’ve made great friends through them. There is …
Results of our discipleship experiment Discipling In our never-ending quest to help you grow in your faith on this blog, we offered a nine week discipling experiment that ends today. Twelve people signed up …
Have you found your tribe yet? Community and Covenant Five years ago, looking for one myself, I wrote this blog about finding your tribe. Since then, I’ve aspired to be a leader who builds a tribe. The ministry …
