Bryan Thomas was a statistic, and then God performed a miracle. He was raised in a violent and dysfunctional home where alcohol and drug use began early and was a family affair. It started when he was a little boy and by the age of 16 he was a...

Abagail showed up in my office about a month ago. She was leisurely stretched out along the top side of my podcast microphone. She appeared boldly unconcerned with my presence and didn’t even flinch as I came to investigate. She was molting, as lizards are given to do, with...

Sixty years ago when I was a little boy, my grandparents grew most of their food in the garden on their farm. Manure was the fertilizer, and they couldn’t afford pesticides and herbicides, but they had old-fashioned ways of keeping the bugs away. And there were enough kids and...

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are...

We have raised our kids to be close, to be respectful, kind and helpful, to each other. To not keep score of rights and wrongs, to forgive, and to love each other and let that love be known. And we have taught them to always be there for each...

A couple years ago we cancelled our gym membership as our kids were getting too old for the child care area. Online we found all the basic used equipment we needed to setup a decent home gym. We planted it in the garage and went to work. Going to...

If I were to tell you a story about a kid who was raised in an abusive home and who was involved in a highly restrictive religion that only served to turn him away from God, and that kid then embraced drugs and alcohol and all the trappings of...

Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle Psalms 144:1 NKJV I got my first gun when I was just a little boy. It was a .22 caliber, single-shot Cooey rifle, and since Daniel Boone only needed one shot to...

My wife and I are self-employed and I am blessed to have plenty of work to do. But, as any business owner knows, when you are building your dream, there is far more work that needs doing than there is time to get it all done. That’s just the...

It’s rare to meet someone who has survived a plane crash and even more rare to meet someone who has survived a helicopter crash. You could say then that meeting a pilot who has survived one plane crash and two helicopter crashes during his career, is a very rare...