It was nearly a nondescript December Wednesday.  I was pushing hard to finish projects on my desk, and Cherie was likely pulling dinner together and trying to focus the kids on their homework.The only...  Read More

What if you had four days to spend in the wilderness of Colorado?Unplugged from the matrix. Four days in a fellowship of world changing men like you. A fellowship of men who want what you want and hav...  Read More

Pause with me for a moment.Do this mental exercise: what comes to mind when you think of a turkey?For most of my life, my first thought would have been an oblong, shrink-wrapped package in the frozen ...  Read More

Most of the things that happen to me along the way, I experience as interruptions.I set my calendar and my day with the best of intentions. Inevitably, all kinds of things come up that aren't on that ...  Read More

Recently, I was picking up the neighborhood boys to drive them to school along with our kids as is part of our Thursday morning liturgy.  But on this particular day, things were a bit different: our l...  Read More

I was reading an NPR news article on Apple’s recent iPhone release and all the upgrades associated with their big splash.  In the world of “let’s build a better mousetrap,” it was quite impressive.Her...  Read More

“Ask him if he ever makes a phone call while he’s making love with his wife.”“Really, God?  You want me to ask him that?!?”Yet again, God wasn’t willing to operate within the limits I had placed on Hi...  Read More

“Dear Jesus, please help my daddy find a fresh road kill.”It caught me completely off guard as my 6 year-old son offered this prayer from the back seat as we prayed through our daily prayer.  While it...  Read More

I couldn’t believe my eyes.It was right after sunrise this morning as I drove down my street, heading out to meet some guys for an early bike ride. And there it was.A tumbleweed.In the middle of subur...  Read More

Goodness, Truth and BeautyBooks are like people. They are beautiful and complicated.  Recommending books is kind of like recommending someone for a date.  There’s a bunch that can go right in the matc...  Read More

I’ve been a groomsman in quite a few weddings. And it’s truly an honor. In some ways, it is an outward expression of saying “I will” to walking alongside that man and that marriage into the unknown la...  Read More

The First DisruptionYears ago, my family and I were headed over to a friend’s house for dinner.  As we pulled in, we found my buddy cutting his grass on a riding lawnmower.  The scene would’ve been a ...  Read More

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” - Mike TysonThe narrow road to becoming a man of noble strength and love inevitably involves a poignant list of as many failures as it does s...  Read More

“How deep do you want to go?”These were the first words spoken by a jedi-knight of a counselor to my close friend as he embarked on a five-day counseling intensive.  Their meaning is simple and yet pr...  Read More

Statistically, there are more heart attacks on Monday morning than any other time in the week.I’m sure you don’t have to hear that statistic to know the truth behind it; we’ve all tasted it. Monday mo...  Read More

No wonder the Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the Wild Goose; to follow him is to invariably be led on an adventure we would mostly never choose on our own.Recently, he took a wild, maddening...  Read More

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 became...  Read More

$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 have close proximity to a Galactic Gobbler or ...  Read More

a·rise/əˈrīz/ v. come into being; emerge When fathering your children, father them as God fathers you... Model for them how to RISE UP as true sons and daughters of God. - AllenWho do you want your ch...  Read More

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's a quest...  Read More

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...  Read More

lis·ten/ˈlisən/ v. give one's attention to; hearTalk less, listen more.Why is it so important to make your point?Why is it so important to be right?~ DaveListen, my sons, to a father's instruction;pay...  Read More

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 rec...  Read More

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 s...  Read More