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Worship Music is one of the greatest tools of encouragement in my life. There are so many times when worship songs say exactly what I’m feeling in my life. As a leader and influencer in many of your lives I wanted to give you a run down of what I’m listening to right now. I…

Upon hearing the news, mom and dad felt thankful they were still in Fort Wayne and thereby closer to Lutheran hospital where my surgery was being performed. When they arrived at the hospital I was already in surgery and so all they could do was wait. My mom has always been very private about her…

(continued) Mom and dad had left in the afternoon to go shopping in Fort Wayne before they ended up at a birthday party for my cousin, Darcy. (I don’t think my cousin has ever let me forget ruining her birthday that year.) My dad had just gotten his first cell phone the week before and…

(part 4, continued) My brother was still being treated at the hospital in Angola. They discovered he had crushed the 3rd vertibrae in his neck 10%. He spent 8 weeks in a neck brace and missed a semester of college. Because of our accident, he had to stay through the next summer to finish his…

(part 3, continued from yesterday) The EMS took us to the nearest hospital in Angola, IN, a small town just a few miles inside the Michigan boarder. Once at the hospital they ran a CT scan on my brain. They discovered I had a blood clot on my brain the size of a softball and…

(continued from yesterday…) After take off, we rounded a corner and the sled slid out wide to the left going down into the ditch next to the path we were on. (Picture a water skier going out wide behind a ski boat). Unfortuately what none of us saw was the row of telephone poles lining…

I woke up this morning with the same words that come out of my mouth first every January 7th. “I’m Alive.” I’ll never be able to forget what happened 13 years ago. January 7th, 1995. It was a typical winter Saturday in Indiana. We had gotten about 4 inches of snow on the ground through…

So a pastor friend of mine from Ohio, Mike Cole, and his wife Trinda have been down visiting this weekend. Escaping the cold up north etc. So yesterday, (Sunday) afternoon, Mike tells me that he wanted a GPS device for Christmas. To which I’m thinking, “Are you serious? Why? All is does is give you…