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October 20, 2025
Monday Motivation: Finding Purpose in Your Daily Work
It’s Monday, time to get going and get back to work and tackle this week’s challenges head on. For those retired…well, enjoy. We are very blessed to do what we do. And there are many out there who don’t have the “work” and would love to have to deal with the challenges I mentioned above. “Then he...
gods-peaceOctober 17, 2025
Perfect Peace in Imperfect Times: God Meets Us in Trials
So, what causes us to think God’s peace equals perfection on earth? Our expectations. I read where a pastor once said, “If I’m going to live at peace, I’ve got to surrender my expectation of perfection. Peace isn’t found in a place or in a set of circumstances that are problem free.” Amen, huh?Wh...
gods-faithfulnessOctober 15, 2025
If God Be For Us: Living in Faith and Obedience
So in Romans 8, we are told, “if God is for us, who can be against us?” What an incredibly comforting promise from the living God, especially in the troubled times in which we are living. But God requires from us two things in return: they are faithfulness and obedience. You see, He is a jealous...
friendshipOctober 14, 2025
He Ain't Heavy: The Call to Bear One Another's Burdens
I hope your week is off to a great start. I was driving and listening to my music and an old favorite of mine came on. It reminded me of a devotional I wrote a long time ago and I went to digging for it…I found it and thought it was worth the reboot. Hope you enjoy. From June of 2019;I bet you wo...
humilityOctober 10, 2025
The Secret of True Heroes: Walking in Humility
This past week was somewhat frustrating but at the same time gratifying. You see, somewhere in the crazy journey of mine to grow my relationship with Christ, I think I’m beginning to learn what humility all means. For years I set my sights on accomplishing thing that defined “who” I was...but the...
gratitudeOctober 6, 2025
From Complaining to Gratitude: Transforming Our Words
I want to wrap up this discussion surrounding what comes out of our mouths with the idea of complaining. I’m guilty as charged and no matter how much I try to stop it, I still fail. Good news is God has been working on me and he’s given me an “out” and I’m getting better. Let me elaborate on what...
judgmentOctober 3, 2025
WWJD: The Difference Between Judging and Witnessing
So, it seems We’ve made our way back around to a topic we discussed a few years ago. So I went back and found this for a nostalgic way to close out the week. Y’all remember the trend many years ago that we all wore in our arms and stuck bumper stickers on our cars that said, “WWJD”? (What would J...
humilitySeptember 23, 2025
Battling Pride, Lust, and Entitlement
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”Philippians 2:3 ESVSo, we all have to deal with pride, lust and entitlement to some degree. Some more in one area than others. But to be able to deal with the weak areas of our life we nee...
perseveranceSeptember 19, 2025
Running the Race: The Reward of Endurance
I’ve been writing about persevering the last couple of days and reading about the struggle on Earth and the eternal reward in Heaven. For most of my life I raced motocross, most of you know that. But I’ve never received a medal with out running the race. No successful business person or entrepren...
contentmentSeptember 17, 2025
Learning Contentment in Every Circumstance
I’m totally entrenched in our topic we started last week and I want to wrap it up with a simple question? How quickly can you or do you bounce back from hardship and loss? Maybe it paralyses you into a depressed state? The key is learning to press on in life regardless of your adverse circumstanc...
depressionSeptember 16, 2025
The Power of Our Thoughts: Breaking Free from Depression
So, today marks the six year anniversary of a good friend of mine who tried to take his life. He was a well know athlete in the action sports world and his attempt has left him an invalid. He suffered from the silent killer, depression. Depression is real and when people suffer from it, it’s to b...
fearSeptember 12, 2025
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear: Overcoming Worry with Faith
I’m sure I’m like the rest of us when I say I’m bad about fear and worry. No matter how much I KNOW my life is in Gods hands and he always provides, I still get caught in worry. When that happens, I think we are not necessarily driving God away, but we are certainly keeping him at bay. “There is...
bible-studySeptember 11, 2025
Life's Instruction Manual: Finding Answers in God's Word
Ok folks, this last week has been nothing short of tragic and I know, like you, we have so many questions. But here’s the deal, we have a place to find the answers. So, I’m like you and often just wish sometimes that life had an instruction manual? Well, actually God has given us one. It’s called...
resurrectionSeptember 8, 2025
More Than Sunday: Building a Real Relationship with Jesus
“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"”John 11:25-26 That’s really all there is to it, isn’t it? I mean, just believe that Jesus died for yo...
integritySeptember 1, 2025
Walking in Integrity: Living God's Higher Standard
“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.”Proverbs 10:9 In today's world of sports, it seems that anything done for an advantage is fair game—as long as you don't get caught.As Christians, however, we are held to a higher standard. Our goal s...
gods-goodnessAugust 28, 2025
Trusting God's Goodness When Life Gets Hard
We will all face those times in our lives when we question whether or not God is on our side. In September of 2016, I was seriously injured doing what I love, racing motocross. I broke my jaw requiring plates and screws and my back at the T5,6&7. While the weather was great that fall, I was laid...
prayerAugust 26, 2025
When God Is Silent: Growing Faith in the Quiet
So I’ve been reading-thinking about prayer and when God is listening. Does he take a break from listening? Naw, I think He’s always there...But how do we react when God is silent? You see, God uses silence to draw out faith. Great faith. When God is silent, do we listen to voices that question ou...
testimonyAugust 14, 2025
Your Story Matters: Share What God Has Done
“And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.”Matthew 14:35-36This was a story of a simple man who’d share wh...
pleasing-godAugust 12, 2025
Seeking God's Approval Over Human Validation
I don’t know whether it’s getting older or my growing desire to be closer to God, but I can say I seek more now to please Him than I do others. I think so anyhow, but it hasn’t always been that way. Who are you trying to please or impress? You see, we live in such a different world now where we a...
eternal-lifeAugust 11, 2025
Path to Eternal Joy: Share the Hope You Know
Jesus tells Martha, “who ever lives and believes in me will never die”...“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”Psalms 16:11 I get your life right now may be getting hammered with frustrations and brokenness...
reputationAugust 8, 2025
A Good Name Over Great Riches
How’s your reputation?“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.”Proverbs 22:1 A bad reputation has a ruthless way of catching up to you. And it doesn’t matter if you have a great family, if you are in good health, or if you are flush with cash...
heart-guidanceAugust 7, 2025
Don't Follow Your Heart, Guide It
I probably enjoy social media a little bit more than I should, but to me it’s can be sad, hilarious, frustrating and many times disappointing. But I can’t help but see a reoccurring theme in so many of these “inspirational-motivational” posts. They all seemed centered around “trust your heart”, “...
moneyAugust 6, 2025
The Lie of Money as Success
I’m really enjoying reading into what success is and is not in God’s eyes and how it’s become so lost on us. While I certainly don’t think a pursuit of financial well being is unrighteousness, I think the manner in which we go about it and the priority is has become in our culture is....“for we b...
worldly-wisdomAugust 5, 2025
World's Success vs God's Wisdom
Close your eyes for a minute and imagine that you’re continuing down your current path with your current definition of success. You see it? Stay with me. You keep working as hard as you’re working. And you keep prioritizing the things you’re prioritizing. What’s your life look like in say 5 years...