I work all day on a CNC Router machine. It cuts large pieces of wood down so you can have doors, drawers, pieces of cabinets to assemble later. Sometimes I’m standing there waiting for awhile and I get extremely bored. So I started bringing my iPod to work and listening to music. Today though, I had some worship music on while I was working. And while sometimes I turn it on, today was different. I couldn’t just sing along or lift my hands or get down on my knees or any other typical “worship” experience. I had to keep working. Yet my heart was stirred to the affections of...

I grew up in Wyoming, in Laramie, which happens to be seated in the valley of several mountain ranges.  There are two main roads out of Laramie, I-80 and Hwy 287. Since it is almost guaranteed that some time during the winter you will need to head to either Cheyenne or Ft. Collins you will have to determine which road will be the least dangerous.  I-80 headed eastbound has a patch of road that never sees sun.  Even in July you will find ice on parts of this road. Hwy 287 has repeatedly been named the worse stretch of highway in the United States!  I myself have been in a pretty serious accident...

Since the beginning of time, Man has been trying to place himself in the place of God. In Genesis the Devil tempts Adam and Eve by explaining to them that if they eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that, “…you will be like God” (3:5). The initial sin of mankind was the immediate desire to try and be like God. This is not the healthy desire to take on His characteristics and His good traits but the sinful desire to attain what He has so we might be lords of our own lives. Who is the Lord of My Life? Typically the easy answer for a Christian is that Jesus is...

Copeland has been a band that has held a place in my playlists for a long time now. Since their earliest album Beneath the Medicine Tree until their latest release You Are My Sunshine. From the very beginning Copeland has been known for making pretty music. Aaron Marsh’s voice is not the typical manly kind. All the while you can’t help but enjoy those pretty melodies he’d come up with. As time progressed though, they moved on to try deeper and harder styles. Eventually their release Eat. Sleep. Repeat. had bottomed out their style at the darkest it had ever been. But now three...

A few days ago my friend’s facebook status was “Waiting…at the DMV.”  Immediately anyone who’s ever had to get a drivers license knew exactly how she was feeling.  I swear there is no place on Earth where you have to wait in a longer, more annoying line than at the DMV.  And yet, we all go, stand in line, knowing that if we just wait long enough we will walk out with that sweet reward: a little piece of paper bearing a picture of someone who just woke up-in a really bad mood-having a bad hair day and bearing a striking resemblance to the person who stares back at us in the mirror every...