The primary thing I’d like you to know about me is one, I’m no better or different than anyone else. I, too, have faced troubles in my life, and made poor choices along the way. And, all too often (or, maybe not often enough), I’ve prayed the words of King David, of David and Goliath fame, “Oh Lord, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against You” (Psalm 41:4).
Like every human being alive—or who has ever lived—I’m in desperate need of a Savior.
QuickHits
A former Tulsan, I’ve called Colorado Springs home since 2007. I love hiking 14ers, but am no technical climber. Hobbies include hiking, camping, vegetable gardening, and writing. Sadly, I used to include tennis and soccer on that list. But my knees are begging me to take up pickleball!
Birthday: September 11
Birthplace: Tulsa, OK
Current Residence: Colorado Springs, CO
College: Oklahoma State
High School: Holland Hall
Married to Maria: She points me to True North when I veer from the path.
Political Views: Fiscally conservative, socially aware, and politically guarded.
Religious Views: I find wisdom in many, but my devotion is to Jesus.
Favorite Music: Southern Rock; Blue Grass; rocked-out old hymns.
Movies that Make Me Cry (every time I watch them):
- It’s a Wonderful Life (one day, sooner or later, God will show us whose lives we’ve touched in a positive way)
- Gladiator (a man’s man, dying for a righteous cause)
- Paddington 1/Paddington 2 (seriously, you need to watch these movies)
- Babe (a farmer sticks to his guns, when no one believes in him, and in the end astonishes everyone)
- Elf (in spite of being surrounded by doubters, an elf restores hope to the world . . . well, at least New York City)
- Homeward Bound (I loved showing this movie on overnight bus trips to unsuspecting teens . . . I would flip the interior lights on at the most heartwarming moment in the movie, and the toughest kids on the bus were wiping tears from their eyes)
Favorite Books (In no particular order . . . actually, that’s not true. The first two are second only to the Bible in how they’ve influenced my view of Jesus, others, and myself):
- Attachments: Why You Love, Feel, and Act the Way You Do
- Gentle & Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
- Disappointment with God
- Into Thin Air
- When You Can’t Come Back
- The Fourth Turning
- Messy Spirituality
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Rainbow Six
- One Light Still Shines
- Waiting for Our Souls to Catch Up
- The Problem of Pain
- Unbroken
- Who You Are When No One’s Looking
- The Grace & Truth Paradox
- The Freedom of Self Forgetfullness
- When Helping Hurts
- How God Makes Men
- Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
- Shattered Dreams
One of Many Favorite Quotes:
“As [Christ’s] friendship is sweet, so it is constant in all conditions . . . If other friends fail, as friends may fail, yet this friend will never fail us. If we be not ashamed of him, he will never be ashamed of us. How comfortable would our life be if we could draw out the comfort that this title of ‘friend’ affords! It is a comfortable, a fruitful, an eternal friendship.” ~ Richard Sibbes
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