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…
Another parable: The old man who chops wood Kingdom Reality You did so well with the first parable. Here’s another. Again, the idea is to look at the picture and ask the Lord to show you what the spiritual application…
The Ragman by Walter Wangerin Wounded healers I love this story. If you love the vulnerable gospel, I think you’ll love it too. My friend Jack Larson shared it with me 35 years ago and it still puts a lu…
5 traits of a great discipler How to Disciple Discipling has to be a two way street. You bring your piece to it. Your disciple brings her piece. It’s the call and response we’ve observed in Jesus’ mod…
