After a weeklong elk hunting trip in the Colorado wilderness this past October with my Dad, brother and friend John, the three of us descended out of the hills in our red Toyota Tacoma, philosophizing about the adventure now behind us. As the winding dirt road cut through the Rocky Mountain passes, rubbed shoulders with sparkling blue trout streams and…
“Our greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important ones.” — Charles Hummel The pace of my life during the last year has been, if anything, frenetic. I’ve managed content on six websites (a seventh was added in the spring), coordinated social media efforts for each site, contributed to a dozen other…
As I gaze out the window of the plane upon the mighty Rocky Mountains, towering mesas, deep cut gorges and desert flatlands that mark the way out of Grand Junction, Colorado, I can’t help thinking how this wasn’t the homecoming trip I expected. The plan was to spend four days at a luxury ranch nearby and…
With the NFL combine underway, there has been a somewhat unusual focus this year, not so much on who’ll go quickly in the first round, but on Michael Sam—a defensive end from the University of Missouri—who used the pre-draft spotlight to announce his homosexuality. It’s not the first time media outlets have bombarded us with…
If you watched the 2014 State of the Union speech the other night—or read the transcript, like I did—you might have noticed how broad and sweeping was the range of topics the president covered. He talked about childhood obesity, education funding, homelessness, “marriage equality,” everyone having access to a middle class job and a ladder…
Why it’s a mistake to stand behind Richard Sherman’s post-game rant.
Maybe it’s the coming of another year or the reality that 30 is just around the corner, but I’ve been reflecting a lot lately about how short life really is. I remember when I got married all these old people were telling me how fast life goes by, but I didn’t really believe it then.…
Though not every year is quite as restful, God mercifully grants us times of respite around the wintry holidays to enjoy our families, feast and worship together. Inevitably for me, it also becomes a time to reflect on life and to ponder what God has taught throughout the year. As a goal-driven achiever who measures…
There are times as a parent when you get to see your children blossom like flowers. And being a parent means in many ways you are their gardener, responsible for watering, pruning, pulling weeds and working to cultivate the soil of their hearts. By God’s appointment as the Head Gardener, he works through parents to…
Parenting is full of lessons—some you want to learn and some you don’t.
Is there chocolate milk in the Bible?
When suffering hits, where do you turn?
If content is king, why do you underpay your content creators?
What good would it do to gain the whole world and lose the soul of my own children?
“What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter” (John 13:7).
The View From Three Feet 