03.13.2025 – Better Living – 6 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 … Read Post
03.06.2025 – Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions – 1 Comment on North Carolina Digs Out From Hurricane – You Can Help! 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 … Read Post
02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith – 1 Comment on Am I a Cultural Christian? 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… Read Post
02.20.2025 – Leadership – 1 Comment on How Do I Know When to Take Action? 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… Read Post
02.18.2025 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 4 Comments on How Much Responsibility Can You Give an 9 year-old? How Much Responsibility Can You Give an 9 year-old? As a parent of young children, how often do you find yourself worrying about them? You might be surprised at how … Read Post
02.12.2025 – Better Living – 5 Comments on “Youth Nursing Homes” – A New Travel Trend “Youth Nursing Homes” – A New Travel Trend The growing rift between China and America hurts us in ways we don’t see. Yes, we’ll feel inflation as a conseque… Read Post
02.08.2025 – Radical Living – 2 Comments on Adventures Latest Video Adventures Latest Video Here’s a great short video of what has made Adventures in Missions special over the years. World Race, Adventures Rel… Read Post
02.05.2025 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 2 Comments on Could You Love a Serial Killer? Could You Love a Serial Killer? Everyone feels revulsion toward serial killers like the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Berkowitz shot … Read Post
02.02.2025 – Leadership – 6 Comments on Serena Livingston’s Abundant Life Serena Livingston’s Abundant Life Thousands of people went on the World Race, but never knew how much they owed to Serena Livingston. Serena worked… Read Post
01.28.2025 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on What Grief Feels Like What Grief Feels Like I lost my dad five years ago. I’ve been losing my mom to dementia for even longer. Earlier this month, I lost my … Read Post
01.21.2025 – Missions – 4 Comments on Meeting Heidi Baker Meeting Heidi Baker For some people, Heidi Baker is controversial. But to me and others, she’s a hero. Along with her husband, Rollan… Read Post
01.17.2025 – A broken world – 2 Comments on Too Busy to Care About Maria? Too Busy to Care About Maria? John Hearn shared this story about Maria a number of years ago. I share it with you in hopes that it will con… Read Post
01.14.2025 – My Life – 13 Comments on Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us Asha died last week. She was my sidekick for 15 years. She was great with the grandbabies. She probably thought s… Read Post
01.07.2025 – Community and Covenant – 16 Comments on Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized After Asha’s death and Hunter’s funeral last night, I was thinking about why losing someone you love can be so … Read Post
12.30.2024 – Better Living – 1 Comment on God Will Give All of Us a Life Review God Will Give All of Us a Life Review In 1986, I met a man who died, met Jesus and got a chance to review his life – all during the half hour he was te… Read Post
12.27.2024 – Debriefing – 3 Comments on How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me Let’s be honest – 2024 was a crazy year. I don’t want to repeat it, so I don’t want to miss anything it has to te… Read Post
12.12.2024 – Wounded healers – 2 Comments on An example of God helping process trauma An example of God helping process trauma Almost all of us have experienced trauma of one kind or another. And many of us may never get around to trying to f… Read Post
12.10.2024 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment on Trauma Processing Can Begin As Wars End Trauma Processing Can Begin As Wars End The photo above is a shot of the citizens of Syria looking for food or a chance to leave their country as it is b… Read Post
12.03.2024 – Dreaming – 6 Comments on Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity The picture above is of an old church in Sorrento, Italy. Its priest, my friend Rito Maresca, has a dream of a co… Read Post
11.27.2024 – Education – 6 Comments on How We Read Books is Radically Changing How We Read Books is Radically Changing I love books and spend much of my life reading, but the way I read books has been undergoing a radical tranformat… Read Post
11.25.2024 – Comfort and Pain – 12 Comments on Do Hard Things Do Hard Things The path forward seemed so hard. My dream was to start Adventures.org, but it seemed impossible. Karen was pregna… Read Post
11.20.2024 – A broken world – 3 Comments on Suicide and Not Dying With Regrets Suicide and Not Dying With Regrets When people commit suicide, they inevitably leave the wreckage of unanswered questions as their friends try to un… Read Post
11.14.2024 – Wounded healers, Wrecked – No Comments on Saying Goodbye to Hunter: How To Respond When a Friend Commits Suicide? Saying Goodbye to Hunter: How To Respond When a Friend Commits Suicide? Recently, Hunter Young took his life. Of course it was a devastating shock to those of us who loved him. But all th… Read Post
11.12.2024 – A broken world – 1 Comment on Hunter Young – We Will Miss You Hunter Young – We Will Miss You Hunter Young was a World Racer who took his life a couple of weeks ago. Those of us who knew him are still trying… Read Post
