Set Your Mind Above

Send us Fan Mail I had a great conversation with a new friend today Brady Cook, who opperates and runs Diakonos Marketing. They seek to help educate and equip churches to better reach the lost through their online efforts. After some discussion, I told him I wished I was much better with my videos, because they weren't to my standard. He responded, "Done is better than perfect." Wel...

Send us Fan Mail Today is national signing day in the world of college football. Athletes that have been saught after by different universities now make a full commitment to where they will choose to play ball. While many prior to today have made a verbal commitment, that often means nothing and can change come signing day. But today is official, and they are all in. Well...you are being recruited...

Send us Fan Mail Today was a big day for our community, becase it was the grand re-opening of the Hub Coffee House downtown. Over the past month they have been gutting and completey renovating the interior. When I walked through the doors today, I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It was hard to believe that it was still the same place. It was the same...and yet drastically differnet, an...

Send us Fan Mail I use YouTube all of the time for so many reasons. Well as I was using it today, I noticed something was missing: you could no longer see how many dislikes a video had. I've used that to gauge the credibility of a channel many times, especially tech reviews or how to videos. The reason YouTube gave for doing this? They did not want to contribute to "hostility" or &q...

Send us Fan Mail I'm playing it, and I'm sure many of you are playing it. It's the new word game called wordle, where you have six attempts to correctly guess the word of the day. The interesting thing is how quickly this has caught on, and how everyone shares their results on social media - usually right at the start of the day. Actually, 4 out of 5 people start their day by grabbi...

Send us Fan Mail I just recently started drinking a gallon of water a day, and I feel so much better! Generally people don't drink enough water, instead we drink what tastes good even though we know it's bad for us. It makes no sense, we know what we need, and yet we neglect it. We weren't desinged to fill ourselves with sugar & caffine primarily, we need water. Well...we weren&...

Send us Fan Mail While Kylie was gone to Texas over the weekend, I caught up on a show I havn't watched in a while: Undercover Boss. The premise of the show is that a CEO, founder, or president of a company goes undercover as an employee of their own business. In doing so, they discover the needs of those far below them, and then after revealing who they are bless these individuals by going a...

Send us Fan Mail Yesterday was my wife's 27th birthday, and we spent the day celebrating her. But to be honest, we should celebrate her everyday. I cannot beleive how blessed I am to be married to Kylie. She is a godly, serving, faithful, hard working, loving woman. She is the greatest wife, mother, and friend. Well...I am sure that many of you feel the same way about your spouse, and you sho...

Send us Fan Mail This morning was full of some wonderful teaching moments, and all of them came from children. The first was when my daughter brought the Bible to my wife, asking questions about Jesus and wanting her mommy to teach her. She concluded for Jesus to do what he did, he must be her best friend. The second was seeing a video of a friend's 5 year old son opening up the Bible and &qu...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight I have my yearly review with my elders, and I am so excited to sit down with them. Our relationship is not run like an employeer to an employee, because the church is not a business, it's a family. These men care for my soul, as well as those of the rest of the church, and have dedicated themselves to helping us grow as we should. Well...God's desire is for such...

Send us Fan Mail The world of college football has been insane recently, even after the national championship. Given new rules to the transfer portal & NIL (name, image, & likeness) - players are jumping ship right and left from one school to another. That's why I was impressed when our new head coach showed his first priority by going back and getting players that said they were leav...

Send us Fan Mail Today we received one of the kindest gestures I have ever witnessed from a business. One of our local coffee shops caught wind that we were recovering from Covid, and delivered coffee, tea, soup & pastries to our door. We have become friends with the owners & baristas of The Hub Coffee Shop, and have come to appreciate their hearts and their faith. They serve many. Well......

Send us Fan Mail After over five long years of waiting, my father in law finally received his hearing aids that he was so desperately needing. He was so happy to get them today, because up to this point being able to hear others as he should was a difficulty. Now everyone around him will be amplified. Well...all of us can use a hearing aid, and it's called humility. When we are proud, we are...

Send us Fan Mail Last night's National Championship game between Georgia & Alabama was great. What caught my attention was something that happened after the game though. Nic Saban, Alabama's head coach, did his best to encourage his star players when he spoke up for them and reminded the press saying, "These guys are not defined by one game." Well...we are not defined by on...

Send us Fan Mail Our podcast will resume ASAP as I currently and down with Covid. Tune in next week as I should make a full recovery by then! #SetYourMindAbovePodcast

Send us Fan Mail I had a great conversation with the owner and roaster of our local coffee shop today. As a disciple, he said when he started his business he had a decision to make: did he want to market & brand his faith, or allow it to come naturally? He decided he wasn't a "Christian Coffee Roaster" but rather a "Coffee Roaster who is a Christian". Well...isn't...

Send us Fan Mail The New Year started with a bang, but not the way we had noped. Tornado warnings were sounding off again as severe storms moved through the Midwest and South on New Year's Day. We ended up at some friends with a basement, glued to our TV as we watched a livestream of a meteorologist who was on the case. He sounded warnings as tornados were forming, helping give ample warning...

Send us Fan Mail Can you believe that it's New Year's Eve already? To me it feels like we are still stuck in 2020, and I know many people feel that way. I know this past year has been hard for a countless number of people, and they look forward to a reset with the new year. Sadly, our problems don't magically disappear with a new calender year - they carry over in the next. Well...t...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes my podcast episodes are inspired by another podcast, and that is the case today. I was listening to Hal Hammons "Citizen of Heaven" podcast when he was sharing about a game called, "New York Slice". At the beginning of this game, one person "cuts" the slices, but must be careful, because they are the last to choose. The "I cut, you choo...

Send us Fan Mail Watching the kids play with all of their new toys is a ton of fun. Watching the kids fight over all their new toys is not so fun. It's typcial of a toddler, even if you get them exactly what they asked for, they still want what their brother or sister has. We are still teaching our children how to share, and be grateful for what they have. Well...I think we as adults also nee...

Send us Fan Mail I am catching up on all of my work that I set aside to enjoy time with my family over the holiday, but now I have a lot to get busy doing. One of the things I was doing today was catching up on emails. Now, what my inbox says and what I actually need to check don't line up - because for the most part, I ignore so many emails because they're not important. Well...sometime...

Send us Fan Mail One of my biggest pet peves is when shops & establishments that are not required to stay open during the Holidays still do so. Instead of giving their employees the time to be with their families, they make them come into the work unnecessarily and sacrifice that time. I was so happy to hear that our local coffee shops here in Danville were closing all day tomorrow, Saturday,...

Send us Fan Mail Our daughter had surgery yesterday morning to remove her tonsils and adenoids. They took her back, our brave little girl, and told us they would come get us in 45 minutes when it was all over. However, only 10 minutes into the procedure, someone came out looking for us to deliver some news. Our hearts sank: what went wrong? What could have happened? We were petrified, but the news...

Send us Fan Mail What do you know about mistletoe? For most of my life, all I knew is that it was a Christmas decoration used for snagging some smooches. Well, it turns out that mistletoe is a parasite. It sucks the life and nutrients out of a tree. Once a seed sticks to a new host tree, it grows bigger and as it grows hurts everything around it. Well...sometimes those who join themselves to a chu...

Send us Fan Mail There was a detial that went unnoticed at the coffee shop I mentioned in yesterday's podcast until my last day in town back home in Oregon. It was a saying that was printed up on the wall. It said, "You are the hero of your story." Now, we all love a good hero story, but is that actually true? Well...the Bible paints a different picture. We are no hero. In fact, we...