Now what?

The Alanta Journal Constitution had a great piece today about other fantasy books to fill the post-Potter void.

Farwell Harry Potter

I am not attempting to spoil the ending for anyone who may stumble upon this blog, so if you are concerned about a potential spoiler, than please don’t read.
I finished the last book last night and…
Before I delved into how I felt. I have been a fan of these books for a relatively short [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Only two more days until we will know how it ends. I can’t wait!! In the meantime, I re-reading book 6, I needed to be reaquainted with some key details in preparation for the final chapter in the Harry Potter legacy.
JK Rowling said two key characters die in book 7, who do you think they [...]

Cinderella on my mind

Stephen Curtis Chapman was on K-Love this morning and told a story about his two youngest children and how the words for a new song of his, called “Cinderella,” was written. It is about your daughter growing up and the bond between a father and his daughter. I thought the song was a powerful song.
One [...]

Back from the frontera, VBS, and some prayer thoughts

I don’t know how you are supposed to define success on a short term mission trip. I brought back all our kids safe and there was no serious injuries to report. We completed all our assigned tasks, shared our lives with one’s we were sent to serve and our selves were ministered too by one [...]

El Paso: Day 3

Dear Church,
Our day started like the day yesterday, wake up call, breakfast, quiet time and off we went sort of. This morning was more a sight seeing morning. We went to downtown El Paso, and went up on a mountain with a tremendous view into Ciudad Juarez. As we drove along the mountain the homes on [...]

El Paso: Day 2

Good early morning,
I wasn’t planning on writing this late, but I am awake and well it was a good day. Our day started fairly early with breakfast a our daily quiet times. I have our kids using their “SOAP,” (Scripture, Observation, Application and Prayer) each day. We met our trip contact around 9am and went [...]

The best part of waking up…

If you are a coffee drinker or a commercial watcher you are aware of the line that is supposed to come next. Well, I would like to add my rendition…
“the best part of waking up is foldgers in your (lap).” Yeah, that’s right. This morning at about 8am, I was wiping the sleep from my [...]

the kingdom of God is like…walmart?

Tonight, Jen and I went to Walmart again. It is home away from home away from church. Anyway, we were walking with Miley and there was a mentally handicapped young man that walked into the store and saw the baby and went to say hello. He had Miley laughing and he himself was laughing. It [...]

my oldest is turning four

Tomorrow, our little fire cracker will be four. It seems like only yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital. Rachel, it may be a long time before you ever read these words, but you have brought so much joy into your mother and mine’s life. Your smile, your energy and laugh are worth [...]