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…
2014 Was a Great Year: A Report My Life My day job is to lead Adventures in Missions and 2014 was a great year. Here’s a report on what happened last year. Here are the winners of our recent blog…
Being with God before doing things for him Abandon I spent the first part of my career in ministry feeling burnt-out, aggravated, and bitter. I realized that in all of my busyness of doing things for God, I w…
The problem with independence Spiritual Formation America is a nation founded on rebellion against tyranny and a declaration against it. That declaration formalized our commitment to a value – the value of i…
