Let’s start by admitting that this blog has been a little quiet lately. For that, I am sorry. as most of you know my family and I have recently relocated to Castle Rock, Colorado and it has been a very physically and mentally taxing few weeks. We are super excited to be here and experience…

I know it’s been said before and I’m sure it will be said again in the very near future by some pastor somewhere, “Life is better when it’s done in community.” While I agree with this statement and the idea behind it wholeheartedly, I have admittedly allowed this statement to become a bit cliche in…

Some days I wake up in the morning really hungry. I mean like really hungry. And it seems that lately as I am trying to refine my morning routine for the purposes of maximizing time spent sleeping, I have been less inclined to cook a big breakfast and instead have been opting for cereal. Here’s…

If I were to say, “Tell me the first word that comes to mind when I say Facebook,” what would your response be? I’d be willing to bet that among the top 5 answers would be discouraging, negative, or hurtful. It would seem that as a people we have allowed the internet’s provision of anonymity…

I went on a hike this weekend with 22 other guys from my church. It was an awesome time exploring the wilderness and what it means to be a Godly man. We backpacked 32 miles in Pisgah National Forest, mostly uphill, although it wasn’t in the snow and we weren’t barefoot so, I still lack…

My youngest is a climber. If there is a thing that has a higher elevation than the current situation offers, she wants to climb it. This includes but is not limited to chairs, couches, ottomans, benches, stools, other children, people both smaller and larger than herself, boxes, toys, ladders, kitchen drawers, and the occasional garden…

I can tell you within a 20 minute window what time the mail man will show up at my house everyday. I learned this because I now go home everyday on my lunch break just in time for the mail man to get there and bring me that days bounty of glorious treasures. I do…

Last week I posted about my workout breakthrough. I hit my goal of running a 10k in under an hour. In fact, I ran it in 58 minutes. It was a great day. I went back to the gym the next day FIRED. UP. I was ready to do it again and even faster this…