After taking nearly 500 pictures off the back of the boat at Ute Lake this past weekend, here are the “Big Air 2009″ pictures.
The only injuries sustained by the three teenage riders were random raw spots on elbows and toes and random muscle soreness.  As for the photographer, he suffered a stiff neck and fought [...]

This is one of the best “in action” pictures I’ve ever taken.  A couple of summers ago, I sat on the back of a friend’s boat while we sped around Ute Lake in Eastern New Mexico.  I snapped nearly 200 pictures of my kids tubing and skiing that day, and many of them turned out [...]

My church – Foothills Fellowship – is currently involved in a four-week fast.  No, we’re not going without food for 28 straight days; that might be considered borderline cultish…and really hard to do.  What we’re doing is asking as many people in the church who are able to go without food for 24-hours once a [...]

The associate pastor who works with our youth sent this to me yesterday, and after watching it, I HAD to post it on my blog.  If you’ve ever been in youth ministry, then this might be the funniest thing you’ve seen in a long time.  And even if you’ve never worked with youth, you’ll still [...]

I read an interesting article the other day that was posted on the Fiji Times Online.  Evidently, there is a strict observance of Sunday worship on one of the islands that has resulted in men not being allowed to wear pants on Sunday.  The Sunday ban also forbids travel and the hanging of clothes on [...]

Last night, Michelle and I were offered two tickets to the Albuquerque Isotopes game (the AAA affiliate of the LA Dodgers).  Excited about the night out alone, we headed down to the ballpark – only to discover that there was no one there.  As we drove by the empty ballpark, we noticed that the tickets [...]

Onstage in Fort Worth, Texas before thousands of believers weighed down by debt and economic insecurity, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and their all-star lineup of “prosperity gospel” preachers delighted the crowd with anecdotes about the luxurious lives they had attained by following the Word of God.  Private airplanes and boats. A motorcycle sent by an [...]

For the past five years, I’ve attended the Willow Creek Leadership Summit.  It’s a two-day conference for leaders attended by 120,000 leaders around the world and is broadcast live from Willow Creek’s campus – via satellite – to 140 cities all across North America in August each year.  Then, after the summit concludes each year, [...]

There’s something that’s been bothering me for some time now.  I’m an avid fan of the NFL and can’t wait for the season to begin, but during the off-season this year, some disturbing things have happened.  Poor behavior is a norm for many NFL players.  Give millions of dollars to young men who have not [...]

Hate the sin.  Love the sinner. I’m really starting to hate this saying.  It’s a phrase that has been used repeatedly by Christians over the years who are trying to figure out how to deal with people who live like hell.  For the most part, the Christian world has endorsed it, but I for [...]