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…
When you fail as a leader Leadership In my last blog I talked about the importance of self-leadership and I compared it to riding a bicycle. To lead others you have to lead yourself. I had a go…
Finding your highest, best in life Reaching Your Destiny Most of life can be described as a struggle to understand God’s great love for us and to understand his purpose for us. He designed us to bask in his love a…
Why does the idea of a missions cruise turn my stomach? Short-term missions Here’s an idea that I found oxymoronic: a “missions cruise.” I received this email about it just now: “Discover the World of Possibilities on a cruise …