Picking up where you left off

            My best friend from college, Lucas Megrue, is a junior high director at a church in Lincoln, Nebraska!  Lucas is one of my all-time heroes!  He loves Jesus, loves kids, and is a home grown family man!  Being that we have 900 miles between us our visits in person, or even on the phone, [...]

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Tuck and Roll

         Being married is the single greatest joy I have ever experienced!  Before you keep reading, please understand, Becca and I are plenty human and have to work at this marriage thing more and more every day…but being married to Becca, taking care of Becca, and walking through life and ministry with Becca has me [...]

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The Kingdom

      I am a follower of Jesus Christ
      I am a builder of HIS Kingdom, and HIS Kingdom alone
      I will live my life according to HIS WILL for me
      I will not live according to selfish human desires
      I will build up, encourage, and pray for the people that the Lord puts in my path
      I will [...]

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And let the redeemed SAY SO!

              Last night was an exciting evening for the young people at First Farragut.  Two things happened during our Sunday night United Methodist Youth Fellowship.  First, the kids were challenged with a message that I believe has the potential to grow the depth of our group more than anyone imagined.  At resurrection they were taught [...]

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My place in this world

                I sat in my office early in the workday and listened to a starfield song, “everything is beautiful!”  Incredible song by an incredible group of guys!  Somehow though as my heart sang with the lyrics I found myself thinking back to a song that I loved in grade school and middle school in Mt.Vernon, [...]

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The Hand that Holds the World

            We are back from an incredible trip to Resurrection 2008 in Gatlinburg Tennessee!  We took over 50 Youth and Adults from First Farragut and it was a LIFE CHANGING trip for all.  Kids were able to experience the RADICAL WAY of how to follow Christ in their everyday life, and since returning home a [...]

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Preparing for Resurrection & Snow in the Smokies!

             Our Youth Group is preparing for Resurrection 2008!  There is a lot of work and prayer that has gone into our church’s trip to Gatlinburg this coming weekend.  We are taking 53 kids and adults on what should be an incredible weekend for everyone involved.  Please pray for safety in our travels up into [...]

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Date Night is a great idea! (in or out!)

      A year and a half ago when I married my beautiful bride Becca I believed that there would never be a need to administer a DATE night into our busy schedule.  I mean, we’re so in love and wish we could spend every waking minute together, right?  Well, we are definitely in love (I love her [...]

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Where are my keys?

           There is no reason to hide it.  I lose things all the time.  I had a great start to my Thursday morning.  Saw my wife off just after 7am, fed little Ellie and watched her “do work” in the yard, had some cereal, made a great big pot of coffee, and spent some time [...]

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A new year, the same Christ

                               My blogging has been less over the holidays.  I did my best to soak up my first Tennessee Christmas with everything that I am!  My wife and I had an incredible month celebrating the birth of our Jesus with all of Becca’s family!  2007 was certainly one for the memory books!  Becca and I [...]

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