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…
Christianese – helpful labels or epithets? Kingdom Reality Words have to convey the meaning we intend or they cease to work for us. So every now and then, we need to re-examine our words. For example, how is the wor…
Careful listening Listening prayer Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Luke 8:18 Hear God’s word and put it into practice. Luke 8:21 To consider carefully means to mull it ove…
Growing up without a father hurts so Fathering & Men’s issues A number of years ago, God spoke to me and said, “This is a fatherless generation.” I didn’t have much experience with what that meant at the time. Since …
