Here’s a pic of my and my brother diving in Cozumel. I’m the one waving at the camera. It’s been quite a while for me, but one of my favorite things to do is scuba dive. Quite a few years ago I went on a diving trip with Brenda (my sister), Roger (my brother), Kathy…
Category: Stories I Need to Tell
Stories I Need to Tell – Swan
One of the classic questions used by youth ministers in “get to know you”-type games is this: If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why? My standard answer to that question comes from an experience I had in a park one day. I was feeding the ducks out on a dock…
Stories I Need to Tell – Dancing & Dogs
Here’s one about my beautiful bride. When Miranda and I first started dating, she bought me a dog. I named him Peanut. At that time Miranda was living with some friends of ours. When I would go visit her, I would bring Peanut and we’d go out together to walk him. Mostly we just wanted…
Stories I Need to Tell – Sword Fighting
I’ve told you guys quite a bit about my nephew Tyler. Here’s a story about his younger brother, Tucker. Tucker and Tyler were really into the “Lord of the Rings” movies, so we played swords a lot during those days. (I couldn’t find a pic with swords – only this one of Tucker with the…
Stories I Need to Tell – Pretending to Sleep
My nephew Tyler was a little shy about his relationship with me and so he did something interesting one night. We were riding in the back of the car from an evening out to dinner or something and he pretended to be asleep. You see, he understood that if he were asleep when we got…
Stories I Need to Tell – The Beach
When I was really little (like 4 or 5 years old) my parents took my brother and I on a vacation to Galveston. We lived in Oklahoma at the time so it was the first time I had ever seen the beach. I don’t remember a whole lot, but I do remember playing in the…
Stories I Need to Tell – Tyler’s Sleep
OK – Here’s the second story in my series of “Stories I Need to Tell.” I am happily married and hope to one day have children of my own, but for right now the closest thing to that for me is my nephews. I have three – Tyler, Tucker, and Tanner. When they were younger…
Stories I Need to Tell – Falling Star
Alright, I decided today that I was gonna write a series of stories and post them all on here. I’ve been collecting stories out of my life for a while and even have a file on my computer called “Stories I Need to Tell.” It’s just a list of the stories I’ve been collecting –…
Lions, Little Boys, and Me
Here are just a few thoughts about stuff God has been showing me lately. I’m not sure how it all fits together, but I’m gonna try to explain it here as best I can. The story that sparked my thoughts was from Efrem Smith at Ichthus during the communion service. He talked about a tribe…
Dumpster Diving and 3 Hags
Quite a few of you guys told me that you really liked the “Hag Story” the other day. We were experimenting and actually recorded it. If you’d like to download the audio file and listen again sometime, here it is: Hag Story – An fun allegory/story I heard from Rob Morris (who heard it from…