That’s how things were on the way back home from college. With Columbia and the fall semester in my rearview mirror, I was finally free! Or so I thought. My pickup truck, already loaded down with clothes and packed for the break, was not getting along with me at all. The dashboard was lit up […]

Read more "A Flat Tire, No Gas, and a little hope"

First of all, I don’t want to sound like I’m taking myself too seriously. This is a manuscript of a speech; many of the ideas I spoke about tonight came straight from the pages of C.S. Lewis and Ravi Zacharias. I’m posting this because I think God is the source of truth, not because I […]

Read more "Hope in Pitiless Indifference"

24 Days Ago, when I started to come up with expectations for what I thought my summer would be like, I most certainly did not imagine that I’d be packaging soap in a factory for thirty-two hours every week. I had no idea that I’d be sitting in a worn-out booth in a bare-bones mall […]

Read more "Soft, Manly Hands."

When it comes down to it, there’s only one thing that really matters, and I’d be incredibly selfish if I didn’t share it with you. Last Wednesday, a guy named Alex Dowell from UC Boulder spoke some serious truth.

Read more "Good News!"

Last Saturday, a few buddies and I decided to go for a hike on a trail called Perseverance. We walked right beside a snowmelt-fed river for most of the trek, and snowy peaks straight off the side of a National Geographic magazine would poke into view every so often through the lush mountain rainforest in the distance… it’s […]

Read more "A Story That Isn’t Mine."

Charlotte, NC to Phoenix, AZ to Seattle, WA, to Juneau, AK. On Saturday, starting at 9:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, I began making a giant “L” across the USA. There’s a joke to be made there, but I’m not gonna do it. I’m a window seat guy, so I was a happy camper when I […]

Read more "Cruising Altitude Above the Desert"

2,887.71 Miles. That is the distance, as the crow flies, between my comfort zone and the place that God has led me to spend my summer. You might be thinking to yourself: that’s a really long way for a crow to fly, and I would have a really hard time arguing with you about that. That’s […]

Read more "Boasting, & How To Do It Right"

Well, after some hasty preparation and a dangerously small amount of forethought, here goes my first post! I’ve been playing around with the idea of blogging for a good while now, and since I’m gonna be heading to Alaska to do some really cool stuff for the Kingdom, I figured that now is a good […]

Read more "Let’s get this party started!"