Tag: Inspiration

Podcast Episode #15 – The Rise of Celtic Christianity with Matthew Rudolph

Podcast Episode #15 – The Rise of Celtic Christianity with Matthew Rudolph

Show Highlights Today we discuss the Rise of Christianity throughout Ireland and the UK via the “apostles of Ireland.” Show Notes Hagiography – the writing of the saints, less about the history biography and more about a life as a pattern to emulate and exemplify.…

Jesus Music

Jesus Music

Recently I rented the Jesus Music documentary and grabbed my sister, one of my sons, cousin Chuck and his wife and her twin sister and we sat down to take in a big part of our spiritual music history. The well done doc made us…

Podcast Episode #7 – Ron Medved of the Pacific Institute

Podcast Episode #7 – Ron Medved of the Pacific Institute

  Show Highlights   Today’s guest is Ron Medved of the Pacific Institute. In the show we discuss his upbringing in Tacoma, WA, his football career at Bellarmine Prep, the University of Washington and eventually the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.   We then move…

Eating Dinner as a Family

Eating Dinner as a Family

I was fired up awhile back. I started this post in 2014 and haven’t come back to it because frankly I forgot about it.  So the other day when I was going through my blog “drafts” I noticed it, reread it and got re-amped up…

A Quote for 2020 – Teddy Roosevelt

A Quote for 2020 – Teddy Roosevelt

Most of you don’t know but I joined Rotary. Yeah, I know, sounds so big and adulty. We have a great group called the “happiest hour” because we meet for drinks on the second Wednesday of the month usually at Duke’s in Bellevue (optional to…

Manly Smells and Memories

Manly Smells and Memories

I was thinking about a post I read on what makes a smell “manly.” My son Austin is taking a Psych class and they studied smell, odor, and attraction. This of course made Dominica happy because she had read similar facts that we are attracted…

The Boy Who Can’t

The Boy Who Can’t

Found this the other day and as a father of 4 sons, it really rang true. Dads – our job is to raise boys who will become confident men for themselves, their families, and their community. “The Boy Who Can’t” From Boy’s Life, c. 1920…