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…
Get the Starfish Manifesto & read it The Holy Spirit is on the move I’m called to make disciples as Jesus did and then to help those disciples come together to form community. And I’m looking for other people with a similar c…
What can camping do to help self-absorbed young people? Youth Ministry In a past blog, I said that there are limits to what camping can do for self-absorbed young people who have never learned to give. A reader wrote me with thi…
Missional churches Church A few days ago I asked a guy about his faith and he responded, “I think organized religion has done more harm than good.” I responded, “Well that’s OK, ou…
