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…
Stories of Swazi students daring to hope Eswatini / Swaziland When I lead others in working among the young people of Swaziland (many of them young people who are HIV-infected), it is an overwhelming experience. Here ar…
Living well/dying well Reaching Your Destiny “All men die, but how many truly live?” William Wallace asked in Braveheart. The paradox is that to live well, we must make our peace with death. If death t…
Church in Africa: Myth, magic, and reality Culture and Faith Here’s an excerpt from an article in Christianity Today about the myth and magic of church in Africa. Unless you go, it’s hard to tell one from the other. In…
