Circle Drive conducted the annual Vacation Bible School July 12-16.  "Journey off the Map" was the theme.  I am grateful to report VBS attendance increased over last year's event.  Most importantly, when the gospel was presented on Wednesday night, some boys and girls committed their lives to follow JESUS CHRIST. I appreciate the leadership of our children's director, Kathy Routt.  I am writing as her supervisor and not as her husband!  GOD used her in a wonderful way adminis

Late Friday afternoon Billy Burleson, Jeff Bolan, Wayne Cantwell and I drove to Gunnison, Colorado to spend the night at a local motel in preparation for our Saturday hike of 14,022 ft. San Luis Peak.  Billy and Jeff would be hiking their first 14er, while Wayne and I would be hiking our 20th. We intended to get to the trailhead at 5:30 a.m.  But we didn't realize we would encounter a dirt road 27 miles from the trailhead, including 2 mountain streams that we would drive over

Throughout the public debate on homosexual marriage, people who endorse the Biblical definition of marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman have asked the question, “How can a person take the Bible and defend homosexual (i.e., same sex) marriage?” Even after the SCOTUS 5-4 ruling, headlines of the Huffington Post have declared that some “evangelicals” support the decision: Meet the Evangelicals who cheered the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling (June 29); An Evangelical at hi