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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…
Intentionality Day Better Living How was your Christmas? We have 20 family members in the house. It is both fun and chaotic. You wake up and there are people already making coffee, cleanin…
Southeast Asia & the sex trade Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking We’re over here on the other side of the world now. We’ll be debriefing our team from its experience living above a brothel in Viet Nam. They’ve seen eyefu…
Dogs Teaching Humans How to Live My Life Yesterday my dog died. Eight years ago, I wrote this post about him, which I’m re-posting below. Yo…