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04.18.2025 – Uncategorized

Protected: AI and Faith: How do I Reconcile the two?

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, many Christians find themselves asking important questions about…

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04.17.2025 – Culture and Faith – 2 Comments

If You’re Deconstructing Your Faith, Here’s Help

Hannah’s story isn’t rare. Studies show that nearly 40% of young people raised in Christian homes are deconstructin…

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04.10.2025 – Intergenerational connection, My Life – 7 Comments

Planning for Inheritance: Lessons I’ve Learned

My parents were excellent stewards. When my dad was 61, he decided that he would rather work as a medical mission…

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03.27.2025 – A broken world – 4 Comments

The World’s 25 Greatest Problems & What You Can Do About Them

The book The 4th Turning tells us Gen Z is the Hero Generation. They just need a cause. To help them find thei…

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03.20.2025 – Parenting – 7 Comments

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…

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03.13.2025 – Better Living – 8 Comments

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 …

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03.06.2025 – Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions – 1 Comment

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 …

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02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith – 1 Comment

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…

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02.20.2025 – Leadership – 1 Comment

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…

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02.18.2025 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 4 Comments

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 …

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02.12.2025 – Better Living – 5 Comments

“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…

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02.08.2025 – Radical Living – 2 Comments

Adventures Latest Video

Here’s a great short video of what has made Adventures in Missions special over the years. World Race, Adventures Rel…

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02.05.2025 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 2 Comments

Could You Love a Serial Killer?

Everyone feels revulsion toward serial killers like the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Berkowitz shot …

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02.02.2025 – Leadership – 6 Comments

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…

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01.28.2025 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments

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 …

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01.21.2025 – Missions – 4 Comments

Meeting Heidi Baker

For some people, Heidi Baker is controversial. But to me and others, she’s a hero. Along with her husband, Rollan…

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01.17.2025 – A broken world – 2 Comments

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…

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01.14.2025 – My Life – 13 Comments

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…

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01.07.2025 – Community and Covenant – 16 Comments

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 …

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12.30.2024 – Better Living – 1 Comment

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…

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12.27.2024 – Debriefing – 3 Comments

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…

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12.12.2024 – Wounded healers – 2 Comments

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…

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12.10.2024 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment

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…

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12.03.2024 – Dreaming – 6 Comments

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…

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