If you want an uneventful life, don't hang out with the Tuggles. As Tim drove Lynn and me up the side of a snowy hilltop in the Black Hills of South Dakota with a drop-off to our lefthand side and I insecurely bounced around on the middle console of this old beater...

Who knew it would be more difficult to write a blog after arriving back home? Over four months have passed since my return home from traveling, and life is unique and interesting. Major realization: Writing a book is nothing like writing a blog post. Here are some...

Sometimes we struggle to identify the blurry lines between our beginnings, our middles, and our endings. Life can be messy and endings can slam into other beginnings faster than we can sometimes manage to close the door on the previous chapter. Things aren't always as...

It was my third Sunday away from home. October 19, 2014. I sat in a church pew and we bowed our heads for prayer before the offering. My finances on this trip have been nothing short of God’s miraculous provision. It was agreed that once I came with Tim and Lynn, I...

This week marks four months that I have been living out of a backpack on the road. I wish I could say that each day's experience always builds upon yesterday and that I've now figured out all the secrets of Christian living and discipleship. Come to find out, just...

Every year I draw nearer to God through the celebration of His Son coming to this earth over 2000 years ago. The older I get, the more I learn, the more I learn, the more there is for me to learn. This summer I began pondering an element of Christmas that hasn't quite...

It was fourth of July weekend and Tim and Lynn were scheduled to speak at my home church in Indiana. Having followed along with their ministry on Facebook, I was excited to reunite with them and hear about the completion of their journey on the east coast a few months...

It was early September of 2012. As the late morning sunlight cast across my parents' living room floor, I crawled off the sofa and onto my knees. Bowing into the carpet with forehead in my palms, an overwhelmed and burdened request escaped my lips: Lord, just take...

Isn't it incredible that every single year God would remind us how beautiful it is to die? What kindness is that? It's as if He's saying, "Look here. See the majesty of the changing leaves? I've done all the work it requires to make something so unappealing into...

It isn't every day you see a horse walking down the street of an average American neighborhood. Two-ton machines on four wheels with headlights and loud music don't turn any heads except to get out of the road. But a thousand-pound, four-legged clopping beast is...

The majority of those who read this currently have a fairly predictable way of life. You have a regular place that you sleep every night, and a job that takes up most of your time during the day. You have a family that you come home to, friends you make time for, and...

If you've been around the internet much these days you may have noticed by now that there are more than a few articles to read. Apparently one of your many clicks online right now has brought you here. I hope your stay with me is worthwhile. So many in society today...