No matter how much you love your spouse, marriage is challenging. If you don’t pay attention when small problems pop up, they often turn into big problems. For the past eighteen years, and especially the past five, we have employed a far more effective approach to maintaining our marriage,...

When you listen and give your heart and life to Him, God speaks to you. Not out loud, like my kids do when I am trying to talk on the phone, it’s something more subtle. But when you know God, you come to know His voice. Ana and I...

The good folks over at Heckler and Koch are releasing their new micro-compact variant of their most popular VP9 pistol. If you are a fan of the VP9, then you are probably excited to get your hands on one. My VP9 is my go-to plain clothes duty pistol as...

Sixth Degree Black Belt, Master Renato Tavares has amassed 9 world championships and 14 Pan Am championships among countless others throughout his over half a century of competing and perfecting his sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. But his greatest success is measured by the lives he has shaped in...

This episode Ana and Terry talk about their transition from training to be competitive athletes to training to be healthier and enjoy a much better quality of life. Now it’s about being fit, capable of doing more, having more energy, more flexibility, and able to keep up with our...

The world is changing rapidly and violence directed at churches, church leaders and congregations has increased over ten times what it was five years ago. Statistically, churches that are protected by visible armed security are far less likely to experience violence compared to those that are not. While we...

Just when I thought politics and our sensational- social media-addicted-society could not get crazier, this happened. Hunter Biden has challenged Don Jr. and Eric Trump to a MMA cage fight. Yep, it’s not a joke. The world badly needs Jesus. Epoch Times, the internet news outlet, reported today that...

God has blessed me with the honor of being a member of our church’s safety and security team. Most of the 20-plus team members are either former or active Law Enforcement Officers, Military Veterans, Paramedics, or otherwise experienced armed professionals. That means we love to train, and especially on...

Everything I do, as it turns out, is teaching my kids something. Few things frighten me as absolutely as that immutable fact. Teaching a child how to be an adult may well be the most important thing a man does, and the fruit of one’s labor is constant company,...

I’m really excited to kick off this new podcast Ana is doing with me. We are calling it the Faith-Home-Love Podcast. It’s about being patriotic Christian parents raising our family of four kids in a way we feel is best preparing them for adult life. We already enjoy a...