“Even Jesus had a small group.” — Josh Teis You and I are not meant to live life alone. At a base human level every one of us long and desire to connect with another human being. Throughout my life I have been a part of many types of communities…

2017…wow what a year! I don’t know about you but for me 2017 was a year of renewing and connecting with some of the people that I love most in this life. I thoroughly enjoyed almost every part of the year. As I look back over it as most people…

Recently I was visiting my dad for his 65th birthday. I wanted to do something special for him for this big event so the idea was take him fishing on a charter. My thought was we would catch a ton of fish, have some memories and talks that we wouldn’t…

I am an all or nothing kind of person. Are you? By this I mean I am 100% committed to something or it is not even a blip on my radar. …

This post is going to be a little different then most for me. It is unique in and of the fact that instead of communcating in written form it will be in audio form instead. Recenlty my church held a Men’s Retreat at Ironwood Christian Camp. I had the opportunity to speak at one of the sessions and the audio recording below is from that talk. Please comment with any thoughts you may have. I am always encouraged to know how my writings/thoughts have helped somebody. Enjoy!

Recently I took my oldest daughter out on a daddy-daughter date for Valentine’s Day. The fact that she is only 3 years old did not prevent her from getting dressed up all fancy in a nice dress. Her mom gave her some pearls to wear and even taught her how…

For years I have struggled with the fact that I’m “not a morning person” and used that as an excuse for laziness. The fact that I have worked in retail for almost a decade has only compounded this truly bad behavior. If you’re not familiar with this life of retail…

Recently I was given an opportuntiy to speak at an event called Idea Day. This is a national leadership conference sponsored by my local church. I was asked to speak on the topic of Leading Diverse Teams. Below is the presentation I gave that day. Intro Diversity can be the greatest…

We are a sum of the decisions we make. All of life can be boiled down to how and what decisions we make. With everything in life it is good to have a filter to use so that we make the right decision. A while back I was introduced to…