A Walk With Him

      Shameless Self Promotion   I am taking a break from my normal blog about faith and the gospel, to shamelessly promote my new book faith and the gospel.  Small Steps to Understanding a Big Gospel is available starting Dec 1 st. .  The book can be purchased on line @Shinealightpress.com, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. When I wrote this little book, I had several goals in mind.  The first and most important of which was to explain the gospel in a simple and understandable manner without seeming to talk down to anyone.  An additional goal was to not belabor a single point for page after page just so I could have a thick respectable looking book.  Why bore you with that?  I also didn’t want to use a lot of “churchy” sounding words.    Here are some endorsements I was honored with, by a few that were gracious enough to read a draft of Small Steps to Understanding a Big Gospel and then give a few thoughts on the book. It is a blessing to call Monty Hobbs and his precio

                        The Wreck                   Jim loved her.   She was always there for him.   He could depend on her any time of day or night, she was ready.   Many times, throughout the day she would pop into his mind and he would take just a moment to think about her.   That would always bring a smile to his face, a bit of peace, pride, and accomplishment.             It wasn’t always like that for Jim.  In the early days, Jim had a lot of difficulties with her.  He had to take many breaks from her, just to clear his mind and to figure out what the best path forward would be.             In the evening, after he got home from work, he would often pay her a visit, just to check on her and make sure everything was okay.  She was long and sleek and there were very few just like her.  He always kept her in the garage to prevent weather damage.              The first time he saw her, she looked little better than a rusted-out hulk that used to be a classic automobile.  A crun

I have often said that I have never had a real hobby.   That is not exactly true, I did take up golf for a five or six-year period.   I never got very good at it, but I enjoyed it.   But life got in the way as it often does and I let golf go by the wayside. Now, twenty years later and retired, I have found a new hobby; writing, boating, and woodturning.  Okay, three new hobbies.  In this post, I want to focus on woodturning as my inspiration. For those that don’t know what woodturning is, it is taking a piece of wood that doesn’t look like anything, often has splinters, and shows no immediate function.  So the woodturner takes a look at his selected piece of wood and sees something in it that, to date, no one else has seen.  While looking at the wood, feeling it, inspecting it for cracks and flaws, the woodturner starts to see the potential beauty in the piece. After spending some time with the piece spinning at a high rate of speed on the wood lathe, the splintery stick starts t