I discovered that as an adult, when we obey a parent, we assimilate not only their assets, but also their liabilities. Perhaps that is why the Bible calls us to “honor” our parents when we become adults, not to simply just continue to obey them. The book of Proverbs gave me a filter to discern, […]

Have you ever had to wait when you didn’t have time to do so? Several years ago, when I still owned my company, I was unnecessarily delayed at my office, and it frustrated me immensely. Immediately, I left the facility and began an internal audit. As a recovering perfectionist, I began an exercise that had […]

After the Jewish captivity, Nehemiah rebuilt the Jerusalem wall, Zerubbabel rebuilt the temple, and Ezra rebuilt the people. While God was restoring my company, I realized that He had shaped my heart to be like Ezra’s. I had a passion to rebuild people. I attempted to place relationships ahead of remuneration, people ahead of profit. […]

On May 17, 1996, I lost one of my best friends, Scott Brayton, in a racing accident during practice at the Indianapolis 500. Scott, who just a few days earlier had become the ninth driver to win back-to-back pole positions at the Brickyard with a record run, was driving a teammate’s car for about twenty-five […]

When my oldest daughter, Megan, was three years old she traveled with Susan and me to a collector car auction in Missouri. One morning we walked together about a half-mile from our hotel to a restaurant for breakfast. I gripped her hand tightly as we talked during our morning stroll. When we arrived at the […]

A rare 1908 Auburn touring car had rested peacefully in an old barn for decades, remaining untouched, until one day, a tornado ripped away the barn’s roof, leaving the car buried under a pile of rubble. The pieces of the Auburn miraculously survived, but now the car needed to be restored. The value of this […]

Did you ever play hide and seek, when the adrenaline of the invisible becoming visible could send an electrical current through your body? Peter wrote about the adrenaline of the invisible becoming visible: “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him […]

My dad always said, “The strongest steel is made in the hottest fire.” Trials provide us opportunities for strength in Christ. Peter taught: “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so your faith — of greater […]

Where do you find hope? When we surrender our old pattern of desiring life apart from God into the hands of the Restorer, we receive living hope: an inheritance of abundant life now and eternal life in the future. We see this in Peter’s first letter to those on Restoration Road: “Praise be to the […]

Is there any sin that you need to confess? Too often, we hold on to wayward desires, mulling them over in what we believe to be a safe place in our minds. All the while, we die a little inside. However, confession restores us. “Confess” means “to agree with God,” from His perspective, that our […]