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…
You’re Never Too Old for Ministry Finding your call Peggy Scott is in her 70’s, but she’s not done. Peggy has a heart to help people. She needed to find her niche. Like a lot of people, she needed a specifi…
We have to learn the rules to walk in freedom Spiritual Formation We have to learn the rules to walk in freedom. I first learned this from Richard Rohr (and he got it from the apostle Paul*). Rohr talks about t…
My son tells parents to ‘let ’em struggle’ Parenting My kids are grown up and in their 20’s, but the growing up part wasn’t easy. Karen and I had to let them go through a lot of stuff and were continually tempt…