Thursday night I was again cleaning up the leaves on our property — in the dark because some psycho over one hundred years ago thought it would be a good idea to adjust our clocks every year for daylight savings time and we still do it yet today even though WE have electricity. Sorry… rant… Read More »

I had a friend in high school. His name was Jeff. My friendship with Jeff was quite unusual, and perhaps while I considered Jeff a friend — he might have said differently. Jeff was the scariest guy in our school, and while I can’t remember for sure; I don’t think anyone else in the whole… Read More »

Well Fall is here and that means leaf cleanup at the McKnight Family Homestead. I am grateful to have some tools that help with this chore, because I have a virtual forest-load of dead leaves to remove each year. So, on Monday I hooked my leaf vacuum trailer to my tractor to begin my yearly… Read More »

He skulked into the garden as it was cast in the shadow of night, while looking over his shoulder every few steps to see if he was being followed. Any unexpected sound caused him to practically leap out of his skin. Every shadow seemed to hide unseen eyes. What he was doing was dangerous… very… Read More »

When Lauri and I were newly married, the area we chose to serve in our church was in the youth ministry. Man, we were young, energetic, enthusiastic and… YOUNG! We didn’t know much about student ministry, but we did like teenagers and wanted to see them grow deeper in Jesus. We attended and served in… Read More »

One of my favorite places in the world is known as Turkey Lake. Turkey Lake was about 20 miles from the college I attended in New York State and was relatively unknown to most folks. I got a pretty good tip from an upperclassman about its rather isolated location. The only way to reach it… Read More »

Lauri and I just spent a week camping in Pigeon Forge. Since we both felt like the one day trip down was a rather lengthy journey towing a camper almost 500 miles, we decided on the way home to overnight in Lexington at the Kentucky Horse Park to break the trip up — and then… Read More »

From the Study of Pastor Austin 09.28.2025 Books for children can have a powerful shaping effect on our lives. These stories lay down core truths by which young, impressionable minds begin to interpret the world. It isn’t hard to see how princess fairytales or how Star Wars’ jedi-sith mindsets shaped a generation’s thoughts about what… Read More »

A couple of weeks ago, I was driving down the lonely road to the shop in Berea. It was that time of day, as you can imagine, when the sun is just peeking its head over the horizon and the earth is beginning to wipe the soft layer of late summer fog from its eyes.… Read More »

Like many, I have grieved over the recent horrific attacks within our country over the last few weeks… children killed at a Catholic School… Charlie Kirk, an outspoken bearer of the Gospel, gunned down… a young woman fleeing a war-torn home senselessly stabbed to death on a bus in a country where she sought refuge.… Read More »