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…
Answering a call to ministry Finding your call Buechner on the subject of answering a call to ministry is so good, he’s poetic. “I hear you are entering the ministry,” the woman said down the long tabl…
My struggle to become a father Fathering & Men’s issues Loving my own five kids came naturally to me. They had my DNA, were in my home and wanted my attention. We had affinity, proximity, and need. It was natura…
More Swazi student stories Eswatini / Swaziland Sometimes the stories of the young Swazis we encountered during our ’04 outreach reduced us to tears. They wrestle with such hard, raw issues. You can se…
