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…
Recover your sense of urgency Vulnerability and me Last year I was in Orlando, Florida and needed to get to Indianapolis for my son’s graduation. At 9:35 a.m., I had 25 minutes to takeoff when I stepped out o…
Leah graduates My Life We returned from Ukraine last night. No pausing to catch your breath around here as today is Leah’s graduation day. Such a red-letter day on the family calen…
What is your family culture? Community and Covenant We had a blast at the Almands for Thanksgiving. I posed the question, “Does the culture we were raised with in our family of origin need to be the culture we…
