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…
How I connect the body Community and Covenant We need each other in the worst way. We were hardwired for connection. In this age of networks and super specialization, we have more connecting opportuni…
Battling demons in Kenya Fighting your enemy For some reason, many evangelicals in America have little experience exercising spiritual authority with their enemy. Stories like this one last week from …
Killing Christians Courage Karen and I watched “Born Into Brothels” last night, a documentary about the children of Indian prostitutes. The 60 million prostitutes in India have a lot o…