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…
Reconciling with your kids Parenting My friend Betty wrote me the following: “I listened to a sermon tape a while back that was part of a parenting series. Part of one tape addressed the shif…
Portrait of a disciple: Miguel Santiago Portraits of Disciplers When I first met him, he had a different name. Partly as a result of his profound identification with his role as a missionary in the Hispanic world, he chan…
Haiti: Heart-breaking report from Miguel Haiti I talked to our country director, Miguel Santiago. He just returned from Port-au-Prince with this report: Miguel passed by a school that was full of s…