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…
The fruit of 7 years of blogging Blog Community I've been blogging almost every day for seven years. For a few months now I've sensed that it's time to change things up – maybe take a break …
’08 Year-end giving Radical Living It’s been a wild year financially for many of you. Some of you have taken huge losses in the market or in your real estate holdings. As we approach 2009, i…
Jesus’ Discipleship pillar #4: Body Life Discipling The American Church model of body life is about as far from Jesus’ model as it is from here to Jerusalem. All my life I’ve hungered for more than the Sunday …
