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…
Adopting and fighting for a son Orphans My friend Brent Gudgel at Deidox.com just sent me this short film called “Deidox: The Ivey Family.” It’s about adoption (and Haiti), and ultimately how we ar…
Misunderstanding adversity Dealing with junk in our lives So, Karen and I are in Panama. We're taking some time off and I'm going to try not to blog for a week. In the mean time, I'd like to start a …
Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity Dreaming The picture above is of an old church in Sorrento, Italy. Its priest, my friend Rito Maresca, has a dream of a coffee shop that offers the best coffee dr…
