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…
A Hawk Reaching Your Destiny A blustery autumn day. I debated until mid-afternoon about running, but with the sun out in a cloudless sky, I took off down the driveway. Acorns pelted the …
Making it through a fast Spiritual Formation Those of you who started fasting with us on Sunday (see comments here) are at the midpoint if you’re fasting for a week. It can feel miserable if you’re hear…
Happy Easter to my blog readers! My Life Happy Easter, people! Thru the magic of the internet, I’ve come to care about many of you whom I’ve never met, but who regularly read this blog. So when I wi…