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…
Reconciling with your kids Parenting My friend Betty wrote me the following: “I listened to a sermon tape a while back that was part of a parenting series. Part of one tape addressed the shif…
The dangers of dependency on a mission trip (part 3) Short-term missions Third in a series on the issue of dependency focuses on why it can backfire on your group. For the participants of the sending church, a sense of dependen…
Paying attention to what God may be saying Listening prayer Critics of listening prayer frequently misunderstand the way in which we apply the truths of Scripture about listening for God’s voice. They take seriously t…
