Set Your Mind Above

Send us Fan Mail My wife has now taken on the task of painting the interior of our house a new color. While it has so far been fairly easy, we've made it to the living room with 12 foot vaulted ceilings & other hard to reach places because of built in bookcases. We were not equipped to take this part on ourselves, which is why we borrowed a free standing ladder to help. All of our project...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the football world was shocked when star wide receiver Henry Ruggs III drove intoxicated at incredible speeds and struck another driver. His choices ended the life of a 23 year old girl, as well as his career. He will spend the next 2-20 years in prison while his young girls family will spend the rest of their lives mourning her tragic loss. Well...do we take sin seriou...

Send us Fan Mail Susan Sparks has become one of my favorite people recently - she is my great Uncle Keith's attorney. She is a disciple of Jesus, kind, patient, and honorable in all of her work. But something I discovered blew me away - the countless hours she has poured into our case for our family have all been pro bono, that is to say, free of charge. Why would she do this? Her answer: bec...

Send us Fan Mail I have been on a 10 year search for a particular copy of the Bible that has been long out of print, a World Publishing New American Standard New Testament. No matter where I looked, a copy was nowhere to be found. That is until a new friend learned of my search, and sent me my very own copy in the mail yesterday. I couldn't believe it. What an incredible act of kindness...Wel...

Send us Fan Mail Our son had a severe reaction to penicillin that landed us in the ER late last night.  Our poor son was all swollen and covered in a horrid rash from head to toe, compltely miserable. As I sat there holding him, I felt terrible as there was nothing I could do to fix it. I love my son, and if I could have even taken his place I would have. Well...isn't that exactly what Jesus...

Send us Fan Mail Everytime I see a jet stream up in the sky I think of my daughter. She loves airplanes, and she is so excited to point one out everytime she sees one. Actually, she doesn't even have to see it. As long as she sees a jet stream, she knows a plane was there. If you told her it was just a cloud, she wouldn't beleive you, she's smart enough to know a jet stream is no ac...

Send us Fan Mail We love talking about the things we love. Today I was talking about the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, NC with a Barista and others joined in and shared their experience. It is second nature for us to share our own experiences, we do not have to think about it, we just do it. Well...why don't we just talk about Jesus with others? Many times we are afraid, we do not know what to...

Send us Fan Mail My wife keeps a beautiful home, and I'm grateful because I don't really have an eye for the kinds of things she does. My lone contribution is buying her seasonal flowers on a regular basis to display. While they are beautiful while they last, I'm looking at my last bouquet which is now wilting and dieing. That's the thing about flowers - they don't last fo...

Send us Fan Mail I saw some powerful data today that challenged me and I wanted to share here. Did you know that it would only take the average reader just over 72 hours to finish the entire Bible? When you break it down over a period of a year or months, it's embarasing how many Christians still have not read the entirety of the Bible. What's our excuse? We don't have time. Well......

Send us Fan Mail I was helping to move a heavy grill over the weekend for a friend who was moving from their old house to their new one when there was a huge breakdown in communication. He told us to put it on the porch, which I assumed was the outdoor upstairs covered area off the kitchen. Half way up, we found out he meant downstairs - what I considered a patio. Same words, different meanings -...

Send us Fan Mail We're back at it again, and unfortunately so is some kind of virus or infection with our kids. Dane has been running a high fever for several days, and Ava just started tonight. We've ruled out almost everything after several visits to doctors, which is good but also frustrating. Rotating Tylenol & Motrin is fine, but it just treats the symptoms & not the root is...

Send us Fan Mail We will resume the Set Your Mind Above Podast next week on Tuesday, October 19th, 2021. Thank ya'll for your overwhelming love and support.  #SetYourMindAbovePodcast

Send us Fan Mail Transparency moment: not a good day for me. I have so much going on all at the same time, and all of it kind of came to a head for me this morning emotionally. My wife, knowing me well, also knew how much I could use some encouragement and time to talk with her Dad, so she asked him to reach out to me. I didn't realize how much I needed his counsel, and I am so grateful for h...

Send us Fan Mail The spiders are terrible this year, it seems like everytime I turn around outside or inside there is one there. Well today it turned out that the kids got a show put on for them. They got to watch a jumping spider pounce on a stink bug that was on the outside of the window. It never saw it coming, it was a sudden aggresive attack. Well...Satan works this same way often in our live...

Send us Fan Mail Last night we were under a tornado warning, not a watch, a warning as the storm came closing in on us. As the sirens blared, I was thankful to be downstairs in the cement walled basement of our house of worship as we were attending midweek classes.  As I stayed up late tracking the storm, I found myself thinking how we desperately need a storm shelter in the future as a part of ou...

Send us Fan Mail I was given a suggested artist to listen to today, but as soon as he started singing I recognized his voice as the lead singer of another band. Apparently this was his solo work, completely separate from his work with the band he started with. Lot's of mucisians do this, becauase there is more freedom as a solo artist & those lines are not blured between individual effort...

Send us Fan Mail Maybe it happened to you just like it did to me yesterday. You picked up your phone to open Facebook or Instagram...and nothing worked. In a rare, still unexplained event, these social media platforms went down globally! But you know what? For one whole day, no one was fighting with each other on Facebook. Well...whether it's up and running or not, Christians are called not t...

Send us Fan Mail I was so pleased to see the Hub Coffee Shop here in Danville partnering with a local organization to raise awareness for having good mental health. In addition to free coffee, as you walked in you were able to put a note up telling others what helped to bring you good mental health. To quote the Hub, "Your mental health is just as important as your physical." Well...so i...

Send us Fan Mail Over the past week we have seen countless instances where other people here that are a part of our church family have shown tremendous love to our children. When others love our kids, it makes us feel so loved ourselves. And that's the way it should be - would anyone beleive you if you said you loved them but hurt their children? Well...don't you think God feels the same...

Send us Fan Mail I spent the day building cabinets again, which I found very rewarding. At the end of the day, we got to sit back and see all that we had accomplished over a few days. Instead of boxes stacked on boxes, there were dozens of cabinets we had constructed and worked hard to build. It's nice to work hard on something and see immediate results. Well...in our Kingdom work, it doesn&a...

Send us Fan Mail Is there such thing as too much of a good thing? I found out today that certain is the case. We were putting together cabinets at the Leber's new home and I was supposed to lay down a thin layer of wood glue in the grooves before fastening the cabinets together. Well, I wen't a little overboard and made a huge mess. Less is more when it comes to glue. Well...self-control...

Send us Fan Mail I had the pleasure today of sitting down with Earl & Lu Adams, long time members of our congregation. They were married at the age of 21 - and are now in their mid 90s. They have been married for 75 years, which is the second longest marriage I have ever known! How have they made it work? Well...marriage from the beginning was designed by God to be one man and one woman for li...

Send us Fan Mail Fall is here! The weather was well under 70 degrees, and I've broken out my flannel and sweatshirts. I love fall and winter, they are my favorite seasons. No matter what your favorite is, you can bank on the fact that seasons will always change. Can you imagine if things that don't change suddenly did though? Such as the force of gravity? Or the freezing point? It would...

Send us Fan Mail I love my hand brews when it comes to coffee, but there are many people who are not willing to go through the drawn out process for their coffee. They want it fast and they want it easy. Instant gratification is a huge thing for us today. Well...while that's not always a bad thing, it's a very bad thing when it spills over into our spiritual life. Instead of waiting on t...

Send us Fan Mail My wife visited a tree in South Carolina.  That's right, a tree. But it's not just any tree, it's the Angel Oak Tree that covers 17,000 square feet with it's branches. It is absolutely enormous! How do the branches, that extend up to almost 190 feet long, keep from breaking? Well, it has incredibly deep roots for starters. But secondly, each branch has been tet...