From the Home Place

March 14, 2026

Good morning. Well, as I said yesterday, today is a duplicate in the weather department. Starting at 23 degrees, headed for 63 with 55 mph winds. Please be praying for all of the fire fighters in this part of the country. The fires in Nebraska are a very serious issue!

Well, I did it. Yesterday Miss Deb and I drove to Scottsbluff, Nebraska to get some groceries and building supplies. We drove into a 55-mph head wind all of the way home, so fuel was required. With my mind on several other things going on in my life at the moment, I corrupted the fuel in my pickup. As such today I have to pump out the bad fuel, clean the tank and add clean fuel.

Sound familiar? Now I’m not talking fuel in a vehicle; I’m speaking of how easy it is to allow bad thinking to get us into trouble spiritually. I was focused upon one thing while doing something else and now I have a full day of work ahead of me in an effort to set things right.

I hope this is a lesson about not keeping a clear focus: the Bible tells us to “fix our eyes upon the author and perfector of life,” speaking of keeping our focus upon Christ. As such, by keeping a clear focus upon Jesus, we will have a Christ-like attitude, resulting in Christ-like actions.

The Bible also tells us that we have an enemy, who loves to uses worry to get our minds focused upon things of this world, causing us to lose our focus upon Christ-like matters, thus we make serious mistakes called sin, and sin always costs us and those whom we love.

When we lose our spiritual focus, we will end up putting bad fuel into our spiritual tank, just like what I did yesterday to our pickup. As such, that bad fuel has to be pumped out, the tank cleaned and new fuel added to the tank. Spiritually, I have to empty the bad fuel out of my take through confession and cleansing (1 Jn. 1:9), and add clean fuel, I.e. the truth of Scripture.

Allow me to use this illustration: In years past, my old pickup would run on a bad fuel mix. But in today’s culture, with all of the elements of our modern vehicles, one has to be very careful to keep the correct fuel in the tank or there can be serious damage to our vehicle’s engine.

The same is true of us spiritually. Before being born again, my spiritual life ran on junk fuel. Yet after being born again, in today’s culture, I have to be very careful of the fuel I put into my spiritual engine. If I lose focus and put the wrong fuel into my spiritual tank, I can cause serious damage to my spiritual engine often referred to as my heart. The equation is quite simple, bad spiritual fuel, bad heart.

As I learned yesterday, it doesn’t take very much bad fuel to mess up the whole tank. As the Bible clearly states, “a little leaven, leavens the whole lump.” Hopefully, you are getting the point: It is extremely easy to allow the “worries of this world” to choke out the good seed of Scripture.

I wasn’t thinking about terrible, sinful things yesterday as I added bad fuel to the pickup. I was praying for firefighters; I was visiting with the Lord about my degree of involvement concerning a conflict within a friend’s church, and just like that I contaminated the fuel in my pickup!

For sure, we are to pray without ceasing, yet we must also remain focused upon what we are doing at the moment. Lack of focus allows those good things we are thinking about to become “weeds” in our minds and the next thing you know, we are making mistakes.

Summary, apart from Jesus our fuel tank (heart) is filled with bad fuel, and our old, earthy vehicle will run just fine on corrupted fuel. But once we are truly connected with Jesus, we have to be constantly focused upon adding only clean fuel (Scripture) to our spiritual fuel tank. Worry about other things will cause us to lose focus, resulting in sin.

So, my friend, please be careful to keep your focus upon Jesus. Make sure that you do not allow the worries of this world to choke out the good seed God has planted in your heart. Oh, I heard that: someone just asked, “What is the difference between a concern and a worry?” Good question. My simple answer is this, it is good to pray about that which concerns me – the issues of importance within my realm. However, when I focus more upon those concerns than I do upon how I am living in the moment, at that moment those legitimate concerns become illegitimate worries. Worries always consume, much like the fires in Nebraska.

Pray without ceasing but keep your focus upon Christlikeness. Do good works for God’s kingdom but keep your focus upon Jesus and the task at hand. Be concerned about what is taking place within your local setting and the world around you but look at all matters through the lens of Scripture. Our Heavenly Father wants us to bring our concerns before Him, yet we must also be willing leave those concerns at the foot of the cross, allowing Him to provide the remedy which will often requiring a change in our personal life.

So, for today I have some work to do, both physically and spiritually. Thanks for your prayers.

Cleaning out the old and putting in the new with you, Neal

March 13, 2026

Good morning friends. Boy, we are all glad that today is a calmer day. Here in Lusk, Wyoming we are starting at 23 degrees, looking to reach 63 before the sun sets again. If yesterday’s wind didn’t beat you quite enough, today’s wind will be 21 mph with gusts of 55, and tomorrow is to be a duplicate of today. I guess the good news is that if you survive today, you will be practiced up for tomorrow.

Though I didn’t enjoy yesterday’s screaming 74 mph winds, it did improve my prayer life. I prayed without ceasing that trees and powerlines would stay in place. That buildings would hold together and that those who had to be on the road would safely reach their destination, and I prayed for those who are fighting fires and that our Lord will send sizeable moisture to help with the fight.

As we all know, yesterday was Thursday. For me, Thursday has become my favorite day of the week because I get to meet with an amazing group of young men. I get to be challenged by their deep desire to walk with Jesus in a way that brings Him glory, while it brings those around them blessings. We talked of how we each desire to “walk in a manner worthy of” our “calling.” (Eph. 4:1)

If you are a born-again believer in Christ Jesus, you have been called to salvation by the God of the universe. The One who spoke creation into existence has also called you into His service! Loved ones, that ought to excite every believer! It is so extremely refreshing to get to spend an hour with a group of young men who are excited about their calling. This group of men make their living through the ranching industry; others are building contractors and others are furthering their education. Yet the one uniting factor of each man is that every one of them wants to be faithful to the calling of Christ upon their life.

Over my years of serving “the local church” in many different states, I have noticed that it tends to be the longer a person has been a Christian, the less excited they are about being called into service by the KING of glory. It would seem that many have settled for “the same old same old.” It is so easy to live a faith that is well under control, predictable, and comfortable.

Allow me to ask each of us, “When was the last time I really risked something for the kingdom of God?” Or maybe another way to ask the same question would be, “When was the last time the Holy Spirit surprised me?” Perhaps He challenged you to give away something valuable to you so that He can use it for the good of others (Acts 2:44-45), or the Spirit of God requested that you make a significant attitude change so that others can easily see Him at work in your life (Matt. 5:16).

You see my dear friends, we must all be on guard that as we grow in knowledge about how to live as Christians, we don’t become more judgmental, quicker to criticize, and more standoffish. Oh agreed, that is never our plan when we set out on a new learning expedition, yet too often our knowledge causes us to “think more highly” of our self than we ought to. The book of Proverbs consistently encourages us to get wisdom with our knowledge. For me a simple understanding of wisdom is this: Wisdom is the proper application of knowledge.

If the Spirit of God has led you into a deeper understanding of God’s truth, pray for wisdom. For without wisdom, proper application of said knowledge, the tendency will be to become judgmental of others. You see loved ones, every time the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to a biblical truth, He expects us to obey it. That is, He expects us to put that truth into practice in our daily lives. The precious word of God is never intended to just further our station in life. Our Heavenly Father has revealed that certain truth to us so that we can have the opportunity to live it, allowing others the opportunity to fall in love with Jesus.

The Lord just revealed something to me: one letter makes all of the difference – add the letter “Y” to the word “our” and you completely change the meaning. Biblical knowledge is intended to impact “your” life so that it can then be a blessing to “our” lives. Isn’t that how God works? He takes the singular and turns it into a plural by making the smallest change to the singular! Often, we don’t need more knowledge, we just need to apply the knowledge we have at the present.

So, today, as you open your Bible to discover the golden nugget that your Heavenly Father has for you, stop and ask Him how you can best use that nugget to be a blessing to the “our” in your life. Regardless of where you work, regardless of your present knowledge, God desires that we each “grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (2 Pt. 3:18a)

Note, “grace and knowledge” are tied together. May we each correctly apply that which we learn.

Seeking wisdom with you, Neal

March 12, 2026

This could be a tough one: Here in Lusk, we are looking at 63 for a high temperature, with 76 mph wind gusts, commonly known as hurricane force winds. High winds not only can cause damage to structures, but if a fire gets started!!! East and south of us folks are dealing with tornados, large hail and lots of rain. Earthquakes are running wild and the whole world is in upheaval. Is God trying to tell us something?

In Matthew 12:25, Jesus stated, “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand.” Now I don’t have much influence over what happens in the “kingdom,” or the “city” as far as they go, but I am responsible to manage our “house” as well as possible.

That means that those of us who call this place home, are responsible to not let circumstances divide us. Perhaps more than ever before, our homes need to be safe places as much as possible. All through time God has allowed difficulties to take place within the homes of His followers. Those difficult times reveal the real temperament of each home. There is nothing like financial and emotional stress to divide most homes.

Yet, in the midst of trying times we must do all that we can to “stand firm.” By putting on “the full armor of God,” and by living the Beatitudes, each home is well equipped to remain united. As Jesus prayed that the pressures of life would not divide the unity of His first disciples, we too need to be praying with and for the members of our household to remain united in Christ.

To me, a major part of surviving the times in which we live is to once again remind ourselves that God is in control. And as He has promised, He is right here with us, every minute of every day. During the times in which we live, we must not lean upon our own understanding, and especially not upon the understanding of the media, but upon the wisdom of our Heavenly Father and the promises of His word! For you see my friends, for as long as kingdoms, cities and homes have been divided down through the pages of history, God has always been God, and He still is.

Through all that this day, and this season of humanity will throw at us, we must keep our eyes “fixed upon Jesus,” the “author and perfector” of our faith. To me, that means that our faith is not yet perfect, but Jesus is doing His part to help develop within us a stronger faith that trusts Him fully regardless of the circumstances. Remember the old hymn which states, “Trust and obey, for there is no other way.” Regardless of how divided the world around you appears to be, your home can still be a place of unity and peace. In the words of Joshua, “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Remember, you still get to set the temperature of your house, keep it warm and friendly!

So, for today, hang on to your hat and your faith. Remember, “God has got this!”

Standing firm with you, Neal

March 11, 2026

Good morning! It is white outside, the temperature if presently at 18, headed for 44 for a high, with wind gusts to match that high temp. According to “Accu Weather,” we are still looking at 76 mph gusts tomorrow; there just isn’t anything exciting about that forecast.

For several years, I have not found much “Christian” music that I enjoy. In my opinion, too often the instrumentation is so loud that I can’t hear the words; or the singer ends up screaming instead of singing; or the entire song is a feel-good song that boasts of my advancement instead of a statement of who God is. I know, I’m a grumpy old man, but if I’m going to listen to music, I prefer to be able to understand, and enjoy what I’m listening to.

This winter has found Miss Deb and I working on a puzzle during the long, dark evenings. As we work on a puzzle, we have started playing a station that plays “Worship” music. As such, I have taken a likin’ to several newer songs that are understandable and very focused upon who God is, or what He has done.

For my musical taste buds, “Made for More” is such a song. Here is how the song starts, “I know who I am ’cause I know who You are. The cross of salvation was only the start. Now I am chosen, free and forgiven. I have a future and it’s worth the living. ‘Cause I wasn’t made to be tending a grave. I was called by name, born and raised back to life again, I was made for more.”

I know, in a real sense, this is a “feel good” song. However, for me this song challenges me to be who I am and to be who I was created for. If I may, let me run sideways on a bit of a rabbit trail. As you know I get to have a zoom meeting with a group of young men every Thursday evening. We are studying our way through the book, “Wild at Heart” and many different biblical passages.

One of the primary things each young man has been challenged to discover is to answer the question “Who am I?” You see, a man must know who he is before he can know what he is supposed to do. When two men meet for the first time, one of the first questions asked is, “What do you do?” I have come to realize that men talk about what they do because in the eyes of our culture, what you do determines who you are.

When last names were first developed, names like Carpenter, Plumber, Farmer, Cook… were all names that described what the man did for a living, thus it determined who he was. The same is true of today. Yes, our last names were settled long ago, yet today when a man asks another man, “What do you do,” he is attempting to determine who the man is.

O.K. so, we are in the process of helping each young man determine, “Who am I.” Elements of this discovery process are: 1) “Who do you think you are?” How a man sees himself is extremely important. The problem is that most young men have a greatly inflated or an extremely deflated view of who they are. 2) “Who do the people around you think you are?” Remember Jesus asked His disciples “who do people say that I am?” Regardless of if he shows it or not, every young man desires to be valued in the eyes of those around him.

3) “Who does God say I am?” We primarily allow Scripture to speak into this question. Each of us greatly values what the Bible says about our Heavenly Father and about each of us. 4) After I determine who I am in Christ Jesus, then I know what I am supposed to do. This last element takes the cultural norm and turns it around. Our young men no longer ask each other, “What do you do,” instead, they now challenge each other with the question of “Who are you?” The answer to this last question determines each week’s discussion.

One more quote from the song we began with: “So why would I make a bed in my shame, When a fountain of grace is running my way. I know I am Yours, And I I was made for more.”

You see my dear friends, every young man is asking the same two questions, “Who am I?” and “What am I here for?” The problem is, our culture is giving American young men the wrong answers!!! These are not questions that a culture should ever attempt to answer. No, in my opinion, these are the two questions that culture should give every young man the opportunity to discover for himself, by himself.

Oh, and by the way, his first response to these two questions is greatly influenced by his relationship with his earthly father. Yet when said young man is led into a relationship with Jeus Christ, then, and only then, will he be able to determine who his Heavenly Father says he is. Every young man must know who he is and who his Heavenly father is, then he can determine “why” he is here!

Hopefully, now you better understand why most American males are so extremely confused, and more importantly, you see the value of introducing young men to Jesus??? If you want a godly young man to marry your daughter or granddaughter, we have much work to do. And by the way, culture doesn’t know the correct answer to either of these questions. The true answers are found only in a genuine walk with Jesus, “The way, the truth and the life.”

By God’s amazing grace, “I know who I am, and I know that I am made for more!”

Living what I was made for with you, Neal

March 10, 2026

We are starting the day at 24 degrees with fog. Today’s high will be around 44, 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. There is a chance of some snow this afternoon, along with a shot of wind. Speaking of wind, they are forecasting 76 mph wind on Thursday!!!

I just finished reading a book by the title, “Today I Baled Some Hay to Feed the Sheep the Coyotes Eat.” No, I am not recommending that you read this little book, but if you have ever been around sheep, you will appreciate the title.

When I was around ten years old, we had an old female coyote take a real liking to fresh lamb chops. What made the situation even worse, she was bringing her two pups along on the adventure of the “woolie wars.” If I remember correctly, the sheep were out on spring pasture, and doing well until Mrs. Yip-Puppy declared war.

We tried to trap the ‘ol gal, eliminating both of the pups within a week. The problem was, she had dispatched four lambs and two ewes in that same week. The next week, dad tried several of his favorite coyote trapping tricks, each day the traps were dry; yet each day our sheep herd was decreased by more fatalities. It appeared that we had angered our enemy quite a bit, she was now killing sheep just for the fun of killing, much like a wolf would do!

The pasture the sheep were in was long and flat, making it difficult to protect the old gals. There were too many sheep to pen them each evening without trampling more lambs than momma coyote was killing, so we decided to be good soldiers and put ourselves directly on the battlefield.

With dad on one knoll and me on another, we lay shivering in the cold morning air, waiting for the enemy to attack. I remember laying there for a solid hour, watching the sheep quietly getting up off of their bed ground, heading for breakfast; and then here she was! There was a slight breeze out of the west, blowing into my face, and hers. Mrs. Yip Puppy had walked in right past me and I missed seeing her because I was so intent on watching the herd. (I’m not real sure what that says about my odor since she hadn’t caught a whiff of me as she passed by???)

Well, there she was, crouched down low, preparing to take a run at a lone ewe some 50 yards in front of her. The ewe was alone because her lamb hand long been coyote lamb chops. I rolled my trusty 30-06 rifle up so I could see through the scope, and as I looked through the scope, the coyote and the ewe were perfectly aligned, no shot!

I knew better than to try to move even an inch one way or the other, I was locked down and that ‘ol sow was getting ready to kill once again. And then, I heard the blast of my dad’s old 30-40 Craig. The ‘ol gun had nothing but a peep sight on it, but dad had fired several hundred rounds though it during their years of gathering meat together.

As the trusty ‘ol Craig bellered, Mrs. Coyote stopped moving. The General of the home army had finally won the battle!

I share this rather long story with you not to gross you out, but to illustrate that you and I also have an enemy. In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul warns us of such an enemy when he writes, “For our struggle (battle) is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

With all that is going on with the war against Iran, it seems like it might be a good time to remind us that every person alive today is involved in a spiritual war. To make things even worse, Satan and his army have declared war right here in the good ‘ol U.S. of A! In fact, they are waging war right in your own home, against those whom you love.

And much like Mrs. Coyote, our spiritual enemy is sneaky, cunning and very determined. He too, kills just for the fun of it. He is an enemy that we cannot physically see, yet we can see the carnage of his presence. The spiritual casualties are all around us – folks who are alive on the outside, but dead on the inside.

Many have tried to trap this spiritual enemy, but no one has ever been successful. Yet One has dealt our enemy a deadly blow. The Lord Jesus Christ, upon the cross and through the grave that could not hold Him, fired the shot heard through all of eternity, when Jesus declared, “It is finished!” He won the war for us!

Yet, our enemy is still allowed to live in the world system around us. Peter tells us, “Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” (1 Pt. 5:8). It doesn’t matter if Satan is called a “lion” or a coyote, the fact is that he wants to kill the testimony of all who stand for Christ!

Unlike most wars, we cannot physically attack our enemy. No, the Bible gives us another strategy for dealing with Satan and his crew. Go back to Ephesians 6 and read verses 10-17. Here we find that our part in the spiritual battle that is constantly around us is to “stand firm.” We are to put on our spiritual armament and “stand firm” upon the fact that, though the battle still goes on each day, Jesus has already won the war!

Just like that ‘ol 30-40 Craig, the voice of All Mighty God will one day declare that the battle is over!!! But, until then, make sure that you daily “take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day.”(verse 13)

Ephesians 6:18 seems to be a fitting conclusion to this long article: “pray at all times.” Pray for, pray with the other saints around you, especially those who share a home with you!

Praying for you and with you, Neal

March 9, 2026

We are starting this week with 45 degrees at 5:30 a.m. The wind gusts are also at 45. A high of 68 degrees will make for easy calving, but dangerous fire weather. The exciting part is that they are predicting 70 mph winds on Thursday. Oh, how I pray that all of this wind will soon blow in some moisture!

As I sit here and listen to the wind howl outside, I’m sure grateful for good insulation and better methods of sealing a home now days. When both of my brother were still home and I was a short-legged feller, the three of us slept in a full-sized bed, upstairs in a really old ranch house. When we would get winds like this, along with snow, the snow would blow into the old house in such a way that we would wake up with snow on the top of our bed.

Dad would holler at us around 4:30 on such a morning. With no heat upstairs, we kept our chore clothes under the first quilt on our bed, but it was still like putting on ice cubes when we would jump out of bed to get dressed. You have never lived until you have slid into a pair of frozen Levis! No matter how tired a person was, you would be immediately fully awake!

After getting dressed, we would light the lantern, grab an old straw broom and five-gallon buckets and clean up all of the snow that had collected in our room. Then we would charge downstairs and let dad know it was now o.k. to start the wood stove. We had to clean up of the snow that had blown into our room before starting the stove, otherwise it would rain downstairs.

Sitting here in our nice warm, dry home, I can still remember the arguments that were had while we were trying to quit shivering long enough to clean up the snow in our bedroom. Yep, those were the good ‘ol days!

I reckon that most folks wouldn’t even attempt to live under such conditions in today’s world. Yet there are some folks today, who live just like we did because there is no other choice. You see, sometimes folks have to do the best they can do with what they have to do with. But in today’s culture it sure is easy to look down one’s nose at such folks.

We make comments like, “How do they live in such a mess?” “Why don’t they burn it down and start over?” or the extra special comment, “What’s wrong with people that they would live like that?” You see my friends, it sure is easy to find fault in how others live when their standard of living doesn’t measure up to ours.

The same is true in the spiritual realm of life. We condemn others for not living up to our standard of spirituality, instead of having compassion for those folks. Yes, I agree, when it comes to spirituality, we all get to choose what we believe and how we live. Yet as I look back at our family in the late 1950’s, I had absolutely no idea that we were poor spiritually. No one had ever talked with me about the blessings of walking with God.

So, today, maybe instead of grumbling about someone’s spiritual void, perhaps we should pray for an opportunity to share the “good news” with such folks. They can’t live up to what they don’t possess. Let’s be careful to show compassion rather than condemnation.

Let’s be clear, compassion is not the same as feeling sorry for someone, or the same as condemning them for the way they live. Compassion always takes action to help someone less fortunate. Before we grumble about a person’s lack of spiritual understanding, perhaps they need someone who walks with Jesus to help them understand the true gospel message?

As I mentioned last week, I’m sure glad that Jesus was willing to accept me right where I was, but He had no intention of leaving me there. Perhaps it’s time for those who call ourselves Christians to act as Jesus would when it comes to helping others know Him. We need to accept them right where they are and help them fall in love with Jesus.

Cause I can tell you for sure, it is tough to live with an old useless faith.

Showing compassion to others with you, Neal

March 8, 2026

We are starting this day at 37, headed for 67 with 55 mph wind gusts. Hot and dry, not a great recipe for this time of the year.

Speaking of this time of the year, hopefully you set your clock ahead, or you will be late for church and most likely, the rest of today’s events. It is reported that each time we do this “time change” thing, it costs us billions of dollars in our national economy. But it’s a tradition and we must do it! Though it makes very little practical sense, though it cost a mountain of money each year, though I very seldom hear anyone say they like the idea, we must do it now because it has become something that we always do.

I remember when some feller setting behind a desk came up with this idea; it was going to be “great.” The benefits would vastly outrun the costs. It would be easy, they said. In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 15 and verse 4, Jesus scolds the Pharisees, “And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your traditions.”

So, today several folks will miss worshiping the living God, because of our tradition of changing times. Literally, many will miss a message about the changing times because of changing time! We Americans are living in a very difficult and unsettled time. We need to be reminded that God is in control and that all of this is going to play out the way He wants it to. But many will miss hearing a message from God’s because they forgot about the time change.

O.K. lets pause for a moment. There is no doubt that “times are changing!” And not just on our clocks. We live in a very difficult time, as mentioned in the Bible. Because of the difficulties of life, we all need to be reminded of the love of God. Along with His love, we all need to be reminded that God is sovereign – He is in control of the events of the world. And as the Bible tells us, that which man intends for evil, God will use for good.

As such, it is “time” for every born-again Christ-follower to take time to share the love of God with someone who doesn’t know Jesus as Savior, yet. You see my friends, when the going gets tough, the tough get to going. God’s word challenges us as it did Joshua, to “be strong and courageous.” We need to toughen up and get to work!

Yes, we have endured another time change; and we are enduring live during changing times. Perhaps it is a good time to mention that we serve a God who does not change who He is, nor does He change that which He has determined to accomplish. Lastly, it is time that His servants change their traditions of just attending church. We have definitely become a people who tend to be hearers only.

Loved ones, it is way past time that we start being doers of the Word. As the great theologian John Wayne once commented when he said, “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling-up anyway.” It is past time for we Christians to saddle-up!

Saddling-up with you, Neal

February 6, 2026

Good morning. The temp is 32 right now, moving way up to 34 for a high today. Looks like most of us will be getting some snow, and of course, lots of wind. It’s going to be a long day for those of you who are getting baby cows right now. The good thing is that this looks short lived before some warmer air moves in. Stay safe out there.

Yesterday I traveled to Casper with half of our county to watch our young ladies and young men both suffer a loss at the State Basketball Tournament. After the second game, I scurried home to start getting things ready around here for company. Miss Deb spent her day teaching school. Our guests arrived around 7 last night, while I was having a zoom meeting with our group of young men.

Dear friends, I am so encouraged and challenged by these young men. Not only are they wanting to look like godly men, but they are also each working very hard to be godly young men. Their dedication to living biblical truth is amazing. Last evening I listened as they talked among themselves about ways to help other men come to Jesus and then follow Him with all they are and have. We invested most of our evening talking about “setting a good track” for others to follow.

The Apostle Paul’s words, “Come follow me, as I follow Christ” soon became our theme. I’ve been praying about what to name our group, and last night I think the Holy Spirit might have given us a label. Today, in our culture, most groups that form take names like “Overcomers;” or “Victors;” or “Men of Courage;” yet it seems that our groups name would better be “Followers.” Each man strongly desires to follow Jesus so that he can then invite others to follow him as he follows Jesus. If we are not careful, we could quickly become a group of men who are serious about discipleship; such a plan would most likely ruin modern-day Christianity, I hope.

Please, pray for this small band of young men who realize that revival begins with one person, “me.” We know that our enemy will not sit by quietly as we step out into our different areas of life, so please pray for our families as this will also impact their lives. Please know, we are also praying for you during this season of life in America

Friends, with difficult times comes opportunity to “set a good track for others to follow.” That track must lead each person to the foot of the cross of Christ. And as grace requires, we realize that we are responsible to “set a good track,” yet it’s up to each individual to decide if they will accept or reject Jesus.

“Oh Holy Spirit, pour Yourself out upon every Christ-follower all round the world. Give us Your courage, Your power, and Your protection from the evil one. Heavenly Father, we are asking that during this time of darkness in America that You draw many people to Jesus Christ, the true Light of the world.

May we each live our lives with the enthusiasm of cheering for our sports teams; Because we all know that when we are walking with Jesus, we are on the winning team!

Following Jesus with you, Neal