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…
Getting honest about life behind the podium Leadership I’m off today to speak at another Youth Specialties conference – Pittsburgh this time. If you’re at the conference, give me a shout and we’ll do coffee. I d…
10 Call Gratitude Challenge Better Living How are you? Really? Is the claustrophobia of your life beginning to squeeze? In the last blog, I suggested the idea of getting flowers to nurses who are…
Searching for God Spiritual Formation I had a relative named Sue. She had an IQ over 160. She was beautiful and talented. And she contracted a terrible cancer that slowly destroyed her body…
