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…
Life is short – make it count Justice issues The fact that life is short and our end unpredictable is underscored multiple times in the Bible. For example there’s 1 Peter 1:24: “All people are like gras…
Where Did Your Spirit Come Alive? Finding your call This morning the doorbell rang. It was a repairman. I invited him into the house. I introduced myself. He said his name was Manuel. Where are you from?” …
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…
