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 42nd generation: Stop your wilderness thinking! (pt. 4) 42nd Generation Last week I began a series on Andrew Shearman’s signature teaching: The 42nd Generation. It’s about a generation that comes into its greatness by leaving its…
5 Ways to End Loneliness Living Free Are you lonely? Apparently more and more of us are these days. I just read this headline: New Cigna Study Reveals Loneliness at Epidemic Levels in Ame…
Hard times can lead us to good places A broken world In this season of economic stress, many of us have had to lower our expectations. We have struggled in new ways and are asking God hard questions as we see o…