No wonder why the Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the Wild Goose;  to follow Him is to invariably be led on an adventure that we would mostly never choose on our own.

I took this picture of my youngest brother Lance on an ice laden stream in the northeast, just minutes after I helped him take his daily dose of chemo.  In that moment, and in many others Lance...

$824.00 for Disneyland.

I thought $90 a week for a kick in the nuts (counseling) was a rough go… But to shell out $824 for a three-day family pass just to...

When fathering your children, father them as God fathers you… Model for them how to RISE UP as true sons and daughters of God. – Allen

Who do you...

How have you learned the Father?

This is one of the most central questions to our spiritual formation.  It’s a question posted by George Macdonald as he unpacks Sonship in Unspoken Sermons.  It’...

I pulled out of the carpool line at the kids school today and felt a blog rising up in my heart.  Rather than write it I sensed the Holy Spirit’s nudge to record it as an audio.  Never did that before but...

Talk less, listen more.

Why is it so important to make your point?

Why is it so important to be right?

~ Dave

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;...

What a phenomenal title.  I wish I could take credit from it, but I borrowed it from a chapter title of a much better writer than myself, Matthew Crawford, in Shop Class as Soul Craft.  I strongly recommend reading his book.  One of the...

God is clearing the land and rebuilding his kingdom with you.

Wear work gloves.

Your best days are yet to come.

When your memories exceed your dreams, you are headed for the grave. – Bart

I will always...