Anger is a pestering sin. It’s like a three year old candy-craved child in the check-out line at the grocery store. It’s like a dripping faucet, rusted tight with a broken shut-off valve. It seems to always linger not far enough away, but just within breath’s reach to inhale. Sadly, the exhale clouds the air [...]

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In case you haven’t heard yet, our family has moved from Woodward, Oklahoma to Norman, Oklahoma!  We made our move in the first part of August and have been in transition ever since.  Aime and I are both working for the Alameda Church of Christ.  I am working as the Youth and Family Minister and Aime [...]

Paul’s Mind—Part 4 “May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.” 1 Thessalonians 3:13 James Taylor wrote some great words to draw you into one of his songs: “When you’re down, and [...]

Paul’s Mind—Part 3 “Do nothing out of vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…” Philippians 2:3-5 If I were to sit down with [...]

Paul’s Mind—Part 2 “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises from the dead. He has delivered us from such [...]

Paul’s Mind—Part 1 “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good [...]

So, we went to Honduras…and it was INCREDIBLE!  We had such an amazing experience spending the week immersed in Honduran culture, meeting the wonderful people who live there, and working extremely hard with the hope that lives would be touched by our love for Christ and his love for them. Our travel to Honduras was [...]

What a finish in yesterday’s 111th USGA U.S. Open with Rory McIlroy beating the field by 8 strokes! I expect we’ll see much more out of Rory for years to come. What an exciting career he could have in the future.  He may top them all!  This video cracks me up. About 15 seconds into the video, the [...]

In Matthew 14 Jesus received some pretty tough news from his disciples, the news that his cousin John had been murdered by Herod the tetrarch. I don’t know about you, but for me when I hear news of the death of a family member it feels like someone hit me in the stomach. It is [...]

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially to family.  It seems like this week was a week of saying goodbye over and over and over again to our family of God. We said goodbye to our family in Magote, a special place where we fell in love with many beautiful children and adults. We said goodbye to [...]

We grabbed some donuts and a ton of tools, and at 7:00am we headed off to a town outside of Tegucigalpa to work all day on a “fish farm”. We wanted to be a help to the American farm managers (Nathan Hale and Andy) in any way that we could. We worked very hard again [...]

We left at 9:00am this morning for the Valley of the Angels. (I actually wrote my last post on the bus ride there.). “The Valley” definately had many souvenir options! Britt and I will be ready to play Santa when we get home. I thought about Grandmom all day. She was a wonderful lady, tough [...]

Yesterday we traveled to Mateo [Mah-tay-oh] in the morning, a “suburb” of Tegucigalpa. We held a VBS for about 80-90 beautiful kiddos. Games, songs, bible stories, prayer–great stuff. I was also very moved and impressed with the vision of the Mateo church. They average between 250-300 in attendance on Sundays and meet in a room [...]

I’m just saying, we played about three hours of some of the best soccer I have ever played yesterday! We played an hour at the Jovenes de Camino boys home yesterday after we dug trenches for hours, then another two hours at the Baxter Institute with the resident students last night. We went to bed [...]

I’m on the backseat of the bus. Our crew is traveling to a boys home outside of Tegucigalpa. We have been given the task of digging ditches for the new filtration system they are installing. Apparently the water has been giving them fits. We are excited to help them. Traveling through town is eye-opening. When [...]

Today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras our fantastic Woodward crew hosted a medical clinic and built two houses for two families. It was a tiresome day to say the least but we all feel so blessed to be here. Observation: It seems like the harder you work and the more you long for rest and food, and [...]

We spent a while working with a homeless shelter in downtown Tegucigalpa. This is no ordinary place for our group of western Oklahomans. The shelter is located in the heart of one of the “roughest areas” in Tegucigalpa where there are prostitutes and drug dealers, but also orphans and elderly. We fed them lots of [...]

Building houses in Honduras is serious work! We drove for about twenty minutes to the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, up many hills, to a town called Magote. It rained really hard last night for a long time, so we literally spent most of the day trying to avoid slipping down the hill! But it was great. [...]

So, we arrived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras yesterday. After spending the night at the Farmer’s Branch Church of Christ, we caught a 5:45am flight out of DWF, then through Miami, to finally reach Honduras at 11:15am. We were tired to say the least, but not so tired that we couldn’t play two hours of soccer before [...]