Family & Faith

Faith and family are at the center of how we live and how we travel. These are personal reflections, not expert advice. They're what my wife, our daughter, and I have lived through, and what I've learned along the way.

Faith in everyday life

• The Best Advice My Father Ever Gave Me: the one sentence my pastor father told me when I was 21 and alone in Bangkok.
• John 3:16: What God's Love Means When Your Job Is Gone: what I learned after being promoted and then laid off.
• Agape Love and God's Grace: a spilled can of paint at 11:30 PM and what it taught me as a father.
• How to Overcome Christian Guilt and Shame: what I learned after losing my temper with my family.
• Finding Your Spiritual Anchor: trusting God when pandemic debt piled up.
• How to Start a Daily Prayer Habit When Life Is Busy: lessons from watching my father pray.
• Sharing Your Faith Without Making It Awkward: what a pastor's home taught me about caring first.
• Overcoming the Impossible: Finding Hope in God: praying for peace after a layoff, and what Deuteronomy 31:6 means to me.

Our family

• The Pros and Cons of Homeschooling: our experience homeschooling our daughter.
• A Day Before Christmas of 2021: a family memory.

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