It doesn’t take a lot of courage to skydive from an airplane…it just takes one step. The step between leaving the airplane and leaping into the clear blue sky is the essential step to skydiving. You’v...  Read More

I want you to imagine that you are a little boy playing in the woods behind your house. You’ve spent the entire day looking underneath stones and logs for caterpillars-because that’s what little boys ...  Read More

Did you know that you can’t buy or sell human body parts on ebay.com? (Sorry, but you’re out of luck if you were looking to make a few extra dollars for a family vacation by selling your kidney.) He...  Read More

Normal people don’t crawl into bed with their boots on! Which means, I’m not normal- since I’ve spent many nights sleeping with my boots on my feet....  Read More

It’s hard to keep passion alive in marriage. Ask any couple that has been married for several years, and they will probably tell you that it takes work to keep passion alive in a marriage. However, th...  Read More

Here’s the truth: People in our community are struggling with marriages all over the place. I mean, this is a terrible privilege that I have as a pastor, and I say this “terrible privilege”, because i...  Read More

Some of the hottest summers of my life have been spent in the countries of Iraq or Kuwait. The heat is oppressive! There’s no escape from it. It’s not uncommon to experience 130° temperatures in the d...  Read More

There’s an old axiom I used to hear often in the US Army: “Life would be easy if it wasn’t for people.” This statement always made me laugh because it was leaders who generally made that statement. Le...  Read More

God put this instinct in parents. The desire to correct a child was placed into the heart of a parent by God himself. God, as Heavenly Father, placed in the heart of every parent the desire to step ...  Read More

Jim Morrison, the famed frontman for The Doors, was depressed. He went to guitarist Bobby Krieger’s house to try and cheer up. Nothing was working. Krieger and Morrison took off for a canyon to watch ...  Read More

Many young boys, playing in the backyard on a Saturday afternoon, remember the moment they were asked to become a blood brother. I remember vividly when my friend pulled out his pocketknife and sugges...  Read More

Do you know what you call the baseball team that doesn’t have a bullpen? Losers. The game of baseball, like life, is built around the idea that at some point, the pitcher’s arm is going to wear out. W...  Read More