This inspiring statue faces hundreds of joggers who make their way around Stanley Parks seawall daily across the harbor from Vancouver, B.C.

The early years of my life were totally un-churched. Salvation at the age of twenty-three transformed my life and introduced me to the local church. I loved the church but soon [...]

I’ve posted the story of how our church building burned. Here is the miracle story of how it was built.

By February of 1996 phase 1 of construction (the lower level) was approximately 85% complete but we had exhausted our strength and our finances. It seems to be one of the principles of building for [...]

Hmmm, day off from running – resting the right knee. I’ve had a touch of iliotibial band syndrome – cool name huh? and a minor muscle pull behind that knee. Neither of these is serious. They are a result of upping my weekly mileage to the 20-25 mile range. I’ll back off a little [...]

It is the 29th of December… T-3 days and counting. Pretty exciting! Can’t wait to actually see and hold the book. I haven’t received any yet myself. That will probably happen at the same time the books arrive at stores.

On the beach in Carpinteria

I got a Christmas present from Destiny Image. They asked me to write an article for their Dec. 24 email newsletter – 500-600 words on the subject of “How Jesus came to us so that we could return to Him.” Here is the link. They featured my book and put in [...]

Just received the sample chapters from Destiny Image and posted them. DI did a nice job with pagination (how things look on the page, i.e. fonts, headings, etc.) I especially like the little wheat heads beside the page numbers. The only thing I am sad about is the charts are split onto multiple pages [...]

Starting to see some stuff… The book is now listed on Amazon.com and CBD (CBD doesn’t have a picture yet) with an availability date of Jan. 1, 2010. Cool. Someone emailed me to offer congratulations on getting the book published. They saw it on a Destiny Image New Releases Flyer. This is fun!

Adapting to running on the treadmill. Definitely better than freezing up outside and I am getting more comfortable with the feeling of running in place.

Just got word someone received the new Destiny Image flyer and my book is in it! Woo hoo! Okay, I admit I am a little excited about it.

I went over to Jacob’s (The Christian Book Store in town) and sure enough he had a copy he let me take. Nice to see!

Looks like the one I have posted is it. I am glad. I like it and it is the choice of 3/4 of the people who see the three options. It is eyecatching and powerful. Now just have to get the sample chapters to post and find out the date the book will be [...]