Just celebrated my 5oth birthday with a bunch of friends from my fellowship and it was good to have brothers with me on this day. Everyone tells me I’m an old man now, or an elder, or something similar. I just thank God that as I get older, the Lord shows me things I would [...]

    Hey everyone, it’s good to finally be back. Praise the Lord! My site has been down for over a year and have not been able to get the technical support I needed till now. I want to thank my friends Jeremy and Hitesh for helping me get back online. During this downtime, I think [...]

  I got a phone call last night from a friend that lives quite a ways away, and yet we have become very close in our mutual love of the Lord and our shared experiences in past churches. He has had to go through many of the same trials I had to with churchianity and [...]

  I have been practically living in the epistles of 1 John lately, and one thing that is constantly repeated by John is the love of the brethren. In fact, he uses the love of the brethren as THE measurement of one’s love for the Lord. One of his verses says, “He that loveth his [...]

  Just got back from 6 days in Ruidoso, New Mexico skiing with our family and three other families.  We had a great time of fun and fellowship. Vacations like this one are a good opportunity to get to know your brothers and sisters better, and in this case, it surely was.  Eight adults and [...]

  For a God who lives and is real For a God who is personal For a God who loves me and everyone else For a God who died for me and everyone else For a God who is longsuffering with my sins For a God who gives me family and friends and enemies For [...]

  A few weeks ago, I wrote a short piece about my friend Santana who I became closest friends with for years. I wrote of how deep our friendship was, yet circumstances and things we couldn’t change caused our friendship to end. I wrote how it ripped my heart out in many ways, and yet [...]

  Just got back from a camping trip with 8 families from our home church fellowship. It was beautiful weather up by Coldspring, Texas. We had a great time in the Lord.  Lots of singing around the campfire, teaching, getting to know one another on a deeper level for three days. We worked through issues [...]

  We had one of those days in life yesterday that I hoped would never end. There was about 8 families that came over for home church yesterday, and it was the first one in our house with these new friends and families. The men knew that I needed a new wrought iron fence put [...]

  I’ve gotten involved with a home church fellowship in Houston lately. It is about 10-12 families that meet in their homes for worship, teaching, praying, fellowship, and getting to really know each other in the Lord.  I’ve met in my home with friends and done many studies, yet this group is much more involved [...]

  I have recently found a fellowship of ten families who home church in the Houston area and am excited about getting involved. I will be visiting them this Monday night, and from my conversations and their website, it looks like something that I and my family would like to be a part of. Of [...]

    I think if I hear anymore about Michael Jackson, I’m going to throw up. There is no need for me to go into the alleged  despicable acts of this man. People know what he has done, and the amazing thing is that most of them don’t care. That is what is truly deploring. [...]

    Anyone that’s seen the TV trivia game knows that you can win a million dollars if you answer 15 multiple choice questions right. I’m a bit of a trivia buff and admit to liking the show. I usually go pretty far on it, and I might even be on the show soon, who [...]

  I’m taking my 6 and 8 year olds out today for their first baseball game. We’re going to see the Houston Astros in their new stadium. I think they’re more interested in seeing the real train they have in the outfield go across the top of the stadium when there’s a home run. I [...]

  My second oldest son Jonathan has graduated from high school and will be attending Texas A & M at Corpus Christi, Texas to major in Mechanical Engineering like his older brother Andrew who is at Texas A & M College Station. It is indeed a blessing to see him mature and to see the [...]

  Some of you that have read closely a few of my articles on Calvinism and my question and answer section will have noticed that I have a close friend who is a Calvinist. Actually, he’s the best friend I’ve ever had. We don’t even agree on the doctrine of the Trinity or King James [...]

  As we bring this Memorial Day holiday to a close, I wanted to reflect on this day in a different kind of way. For those who have read some of my material on this subject in my other writings, I want to make it clear that I don’t disparage the military and the sacrifices [...]

  One of the things that I liked doing when I was younger was collecting things. I had collections of all kinds of stuff from bumper stickers to rocks to turtles and many others. As I mentioned in my YouTube bio, I started collecting exotic skin boots but have stopped for a while. They’re getting [...]

  Many of you know that I work in a prison in Texas, formerly as a teacher and now as a counselor.  I’ve learned a great deal about people and human nature working there, and I must tell you, it’s been quite a ride. I’ve seen the hardness of the human heart in a man [...]

  As many of you know, one of my favorite hobbies is playing racquetball. I’ve been playing for over 20 years, but one of the exciting things is how much I’ve improved in the last two years. I’m now playing competitively in tournaments and such and have done pretty well. I’ve also had the opportunity [...]

  On this first day of the New Year, people begin to think what is the one thing they want most in the coming year. Many will answer to spend more quality time with their families, to improve themselves in many ways, to lose weight, etc. While all those are good things, it truly is [...]

    I am in the middle of one of my biggest studies to date, answering the Calvinist’s use of Romans 9 as their best defense of Calvinism. This study has been just one more example of how the Lord honors diligence and faith in him and his words. As I mentioned in writing the [...]

    As everyone is all caught up in the election of Barack Obama (he was born in Kenya, by the way; we made need another election, but that’s another story. Go to obamacrimes.com), and as Calvinists think they were elected by God millions of years ago to be his special, chosen people (that’s another [...]

    My fifteen year old son Sam has been an ardent fishermen for quite a while and is really good at it. His specialty is catfish, and he has caught quite a few, even a 20 pounder a few months ago. He skins and cooks them right up for the family. Well, I got [...]

    Well, everyone, I turned 47 today, and it doesn’t bother me in the least that I’m getting older. I’m one year closer to seeing the Lord, and that’s really all that matters in the long run. I look at it this way: I’ve only got about 40 years max before I see him [...]

    Some of you may wonder how I get so much to write about and how I get the insight I do in my articles. I write on what’s important to me and what I’m passionate about. I write on what I think the Lord wants me to write about. I’m currently working on [...]

    It can’t be long before the Lord returns. It really can’t. I know people have said that many times and it didn’t happen, of course.  But if you’re paying attention to the things going on in this world and in this country, even the average Joe in the street can tell you that [...]

    “Sometimes it takes a storm to know how you feel…” These are the words of Fernando Ortega from his song “Storm.” As Hurricane Ike approaches the Houston/Galveston area, I find myself in the storm’s direct path. What a peace to know Jesus Christ and to know that no matter what happens, even if [...]

  I read a quote the other day from the famous Greek philosopher Plato. Plato is probably the last person I would ever read extensively. No one has to convince me that Greek philosophy is just that-a philosophy of men that the Bible condemns. But every now and then they get something right, and the [...]

    I haven’t listened to Don Francisco in a long time, but I heard a song of his for the first time called “The Steeple Song” on YouTube. I highly recommend you listen to it. In it, he sings so simply and beautifully how he doesn’t care how big your church is, how powerful [...]

  Thirty-nine years ago yesterday, man landed on the Moon. I don’t think it accomplished near as much as the media would have you believe. It seems the whole purpose of space travel is to find life out there, yet there is none, and we won’t find any because that’s the way God designed it. [...]

    I married my wife Lisa on July 30, 1988 and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary a little early, going back to our original honeymoon spot in San Antonio. One of the presents I gave her was something that was one of the most important things we did in our marriage, and that [...]

As some of you might know, one of my hobbies every now and then is genealogical research of my family. My family history has shown me some very interesting stuff. Something I found out this last month is pretty amazing. My third great grandfather, Hugh Fortenberry of Marion County Missisissippi, is also the 4th great [...]

    I love when the Lord leads me to music that is Godly. It is so rare these days, and when I find it, it’s almost too good to be true. When I first discovered Fernando Ortega at a Twila Paris concert my wife and I went to, I knew there was something different [...]

    Well, it was my middle son’s 15th birthday. I think back on myself at 15 and wonder how I made it through that time without Jesus Christ. I just went from day to day not having any real hope or truth or freedom. What a frightening thing it is to be lost. What’s [...]

  It’s really amazing what the Lord Jesus is doing with my site. First, Tom Lamb, who runs the Radical Pilgrim website from New Zealand and who is well known on the net for his stance against the false church system, recently renounced Trinitarianism and affirmed his belief in Jesus as the Father, Son, and [...]

    Well, I finally got some video of myself teaching. It is on YouTube as well as this site. What a witness tool YouTube can be. Hopefully, it will bring a lot of readers over to my site. I responded with my video to a lot of other videos on YouTube that like to [...]

  I am so thankful to the Lord for having this website. He gave me the desire of my heart to teach others. What a privilege it is to teach and to witness the gospel to thousands. I’ve learned some hard lessons this week, lessons that I didn’t want to face. We can make excuses [...]

  Just got through watching the movie Titanic. Never saw the whole thing. I’m not a big movie guy, I think most of them aren’t worth watching. This one was pretty good. Yea, I know I’m a few years late. That’s what makes it funny to me. I really don’t care. It sure puts things [...]

  I made this new category, “Author’s Blog,” with the original intention of looking at current events in the world and commenting on them from a biblical perspective. The more I thought about this, I wanted to use this section to  be kind of a blog on anything on my mind that particular day. It [...]