About Me

I’m a storyteller. I’ve been given the task of telling the Greatest Story ever told. It starts with “In the beginning, God…” and ends with “…Surely, I am coming soon. ‘Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!’ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all. Amen.” It was authored by one author, penned by over 40 in a 1500-year span: 66 books in three languages on three continents. The story has been told all over the world in every language, nation, and tongue for thousands of years and it’s ongoing. The story is replicating itself one life and one line at a time. It’s the story of Redemption and Love.

Having experienced both at the conception and birth of my first child, I’ve been telling the story faithfully since January, 1992 both “in season and out of season” (2Tim 4:2). In favourable conditions I’ve planted seeds and cultivated the garden in Sunday school, from junior high to young adults consecutively for 23 years. I’ve preached close to one hundred sermons in multiple pulpits, led small group Bible studies, men’s, and youth retreats. I’ve helped start churches, church services, and teen clubs. I taught a “Worldviews” class at a Christian school for nine years, co-led our church youth group for the last 17, have sat on Church and School Boards and participated in panel discussions. That’s the easy part. 

In less conducive environments, for 31 years I’ve lived out the story and shared it with those around me in bars, in cockpits at 40,000 ft, on beaches in exotic locations. I’ve grappled with pilots, attorneys, drug dealers and serial killers. I’ve had every response you can imagine from eternal gratitude to pure hatred and everything in between. My job is not to bring results. It is to faithfully bring The Story to bear with absolute fealty to its author. I believe that He will give great stories to those of us who will faithfully tell them. I’m a storyteller with stories to tell.

My story began in January,1967 in Albany, Georgia. I’m the third child of four with two older sisters and a younger brother. My father was an Air Force C-130 pilot who separated from the military when I was six months old. He spent the next 46 years as a chemical engineer on the Gulf Coast of Texas where I was raised in Lake Jackson. I was blessed to grow up in a home, church, and state that still taught love of God and love of country. I easily believed them both because they are both consistent with reality. Interested in sports, fishing, and music I spent a fair amount of time dabbling in them all. The only one where I stood out was music. I made all-state choir my senior year in high school as a baritone and, to this day, love singing with my children and church family. I lived an ordinary life.

Although I never saw him fly, I knew my dad was a pilot and I wanted to be like him. If an airplane was flying overhead, I would stop, gawk, and dream of what it would be like to soar above the ordinary and look down upon the earth from the clouds. Making my dream a reality became the central focus of my young life. I made every major decision with the intent of circumnavigating the myriad of obstacles and dead ends standing in the way. That path led me to Texas A&M University and the Corps of Cadets. On 12 May 1989 I graduated with a BS in Industrial Distribution and was commissioned as a 2Lt in the United States Air Force. Two and a half years later, having arrived at my lifelong dream, I found it hollow; unable to fill the void within. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. I was a small package with nothing of lasting value inside. Having heard The Story all my life, for the first time, in brokenness, I whole-heartedly embraced it and committed all of me unashamedly to The Author, Jesus Christ. A sober self-assessment exposed me as a man of average abilities. By an act of my will, I committed to change the one ability over which I had full control: availability.

For three decades plus, the “author and perfector of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2) has privileged me to join Him in the ongoing saga of The Greatest Story ever told. As a material participant in the drama, I can attest that it is a narrative filled with danger and opportunity around every corner. Stories abound that are, frankly, incredible, and well worth the telling. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20), I am grateful for my bride of 31 years, my two daughters, one son, one son-in-law, and two grandchildren. God has given me an extraordinary life of purpose looking down on his creation from the clouds. My only ambition is to leave all of me on the field to the glory of God and, in so doing, bring as many people as possible with me across the finish line to eternally enjoy the prize that will never fade away nor cease to satisfy.

What is your story? Is it worth the telling