And So It Begins September 22, 2025 — 0623 — 58° The air had that fresh rain and honest chill to it this morning. Not winter’s teeth, just the cool that tells you the season has finally turned the corner. Out across the fields the crops have started to bronze, the grass is letting go … Read more
Work, Marriage, and Showing Up When You’re Spent September 4, 2025 — Night After a long day behind the wheel and on the jobsite, I come home drained. Feet sore, brain foggy, patience gone. The easy thing would be to collapse in a chair and disappear into myself. But marriage doesn’t run on autopilot. It … Read more
End of Watch: Nothing Matters If You Don’t Get Home September 4, 2025 — Evening Some things in life don’t matter. The argument you lost at work. The job that chewed you up. The hours you swore were wasted. What matters is making it home at the end of the day. Walking through that door. … Read more
September 10, 2025 — 5:42 p.m. Of course, at this point in the day my Facebook feed is filled with posts about Charlie Kirk’s murder. I’ve even written a piece about it. The one thing I know with absolute, 100% certainty is this: Charlie Kirk would not want our freedom of speech — our First … Read more
Preaching Without a Pulpit I don’t stand behind a pulpit. I don’t wear a robe. I don’t belong to a brick-and-mortar congregation anymore. But I still preach. And I believe that’s exactly how Christ intended it. Christ never asked His followers to build temples with stained glass and million-dollar budgets. He preached on hillsides, in … Read more
Free Speech, Violence, and the Line We Just Crossed September 10, 2025 — 14:55 Charlie Kirk, political commentator and activist. I just got a message from one of my instructors saying Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. I had to ask who he was, because I don’t keep a scoreboard of famous names. But … Read more
This is what grief is.A hole ripped through the very fabric of your being.The hole eventually heals along the jagged edges that remain. It may even shrink in size.But that hole will always be there.A piece of you always missing.For where there is deep grief, there was great love.Don’t be ashamed of your grief.Don’t judge … Read more
Back in July of 2013 I took the kids to watch the mini rod tractor pull. Naturally I decided to take a few pictures. Well… Pictures turned into videos. I’m not one for keeping cool videos to myself so it was uploaded to my YouTube channel. For some reason I was looking at view counts … Read more
On the 9th of December 2015 I took this picture with the caption “It’s a great day to be alive” I gotta say that I still like the picture and the caption I gave it. Why is it a great day to be alive? Really? Heck, the way I see it every day that I … Read more
I absolutely love using the WordPress Mobile application on my android devices. Unfortunately, this mobile application has made me lazy. I seldom jump on my laptop to update the under the hood stuff like I should. I managed to force myself to do just that last night. After updating several plugin’s, I cleaned up the … Read more