My friend Morgan Snyder tells a story of one day driving with his pre-teen son. They were on their way to an adventure, I’m not sure what, a hunt, hike, fishing trip maybe. But he asked his son, “What are the top things a man needs to survive?” After a few moments his son replied, …
It was the beginning and the end of our deer season. The last for 2020 and the first for 2021. I had promised a mixture of boys to come and hunt with me during the year and I just didn’t stop long enough to work out the details, until January 4, 2021. Almost the end …
Christmas morning was the best. That was when we got most of our construction gear. We spent hours building roads, moving dirt from one place to the other. The jeans we wore earned the holes in the knees and backside scrapping the dirt, gravel rocks and concrete. Our tractors and dump trucks were manual operation, …
What Every Boy Wants for Christmas. Red Ryder, Tonka and Adventure. Read More »
It was fishing day with the KOZ boys. I don’t know any boy who doesn’t like fishing, especially a KOZ boy. For a summer day it seemed cool. It was over 100 every day leading up to fishing day, but somehow on this day it was low 90s with cloud cover and a breeze. It …
Catching can save a boys life and a mens ministry Read More »
This weekend we celebrate fathers. What a special gift a father is. But in our world today the reality is that half our kids do not have a father at home, in some communities it is 80% or more. The church has a powerful platform to speak into the broken home. Here is our thoughts …
Today Many Churches only get father’s day half right Read More »
I didn’t like it at first. Every morning as the sun came up over the pond out front, I could feel him. It was a strange, eerie feeling. You might know the sensation that someone is looking at you. Then he would nudge me — he wanted to start the day and I was part …
Rick Magee/KOZ I was a little guy when I first saw my uncle’s Bass Tracker boat. Looking back now, it wasn’t anything special or bright and shiny by the world of fishing boat standards, but it completely captured me. It was aluminum with Bass Tracker’s orange/brown paint and carpet scheme, steering wheel, a trolling motor, and a …
When I left there that day I was mad. I usually don’t leave the movies mad, but this time I was seething. It wasn’t the movie; it wasn’t the people sitting next to us. I was emotionally fired up because the movie was a powerful depiction of real men, honorable men, men who were willing …
Steve was one of my brother’s friends. Two years older and so much wiser and, of course, super cool. I don’t remember why I was with him that day in the woods but I was following him on the trails through thick and thin. Then, in a moment he stopped and looked me directly in …
