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…
There Has to Be Something Better Than Middle School My Life One day in Speech class the teacher gave us the assignment of giving “a speech to sell.” I remember going home and asking my mom, “What can I sell? I can bar…
Fighting the Virus Around the World A broken world When your own life has changed so much and you are feeling poor, it’s easy to stay focused there. But the whole world is coping with the virus now. In many…
What the Bible says about tears Better Living The following is excerpted from a report on tears by Mary Beth Swan. The Bible (Strong’s Concordance) provides 697 references for verses associated with c…
