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…
Baby Moses’ Death Breaks Our Hearts A broken world, Comfort and Pain Reading about Baby Moses’ funeral on my son’s story about it broke my heart. My son’s blog and that of his teammate, Traci, take you graveside. I gue…
Good Mourning: Learning to dance again Living Free In Southern Africa where AIDS stalks the living and normal family life is rare, children cope by compartmentalizing. They don’t talk about those events that …
Responding to the magic kingdom Kingdom Reality We just returned from debriefing a team in Thailand. Karen and I are committed to these young people and with each trip we take to meet them somewhere in th…