Highpoints Book Launch

Consider the biggest announcements of history. “The British are coming,” by the night rider, Paul Revere. Or, Pearl Harbor Bombed splashed across the newspaper. Well, this one isn’t going THAT big but it’s up there in the rankings. Westbow Press has released the publication, my newest book, Highpoints.

Do you dream of the high places, of mountain air and a new-found freedom to believe? Highpoints will lead you into real life adventures of mountain climbers who risked their lives. You will explore the peaks of life-like never before and discover your own Highpoints of life.

Already, Launch Team one is building momentum. Launch Team One is a group ordering five or more copies of the book. Highpoints, for a cell group, Bible Study, Sunday School Class, Men’s group or for gifts. They receive a FREE Dare2climb ebook study guide and autographed copies of the book, Highpoints. If you would like to be a part of this group, please, email me privately via Facebook.

Launch Team Two will be announced in the next few days. Watch for Facebook posts, blog posts and twitter for special announcements.

I am so thankful for the reviews of those on the endorsement team and we will be sharing those next week. Now it is time for you to order the book and begin your ascent with Highpoints. Order here http://www.highpointbook.com/

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Family Dinner

The family dinner table is often a lost art. In the black and white days, “Leave it to Beaver,” the popular TV show of the 50’s, the Cleaver family met regularly for the dinner meal. Today times have changed; parents work overtime at the job, run off to take the kids to soccer practice and a myriad of other hobbies, interests and responsibilities consumer the evening hours.

Strong families have strong values. Coming together regularly may sound nostalgic, old-fashioned or even of the Puritan era but research shows families who take time to be together “on purpose” will survive the storms of family life.

The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) study shows, that families who eat together are most likely to do well in school, eat nutritious foods, practice good tables matters and the report included, that table dinners with the family has an impact on delaying sexual activity. Plus, teens are less likely to smoke, do drugs, drink alcohol, be depressed or consider suicide. I realize many other reasons for this family improvement can be factored in to this equation but the matter is resolved, families who have a regular time of meeting around the dinner table show improvement in several life choices.

Straying from negative subjects is of extreme importance when eating. Turning all cell phones on silent and having a set time for dinner so the entire family can participate are of great value. So let’s pull the recipe book out, carve out some delicious meals for the weekly menu, turn the TV off and enjoy a family time together around the dinner table.

Moments Change into Milestones

Within the last ten days we have found much to our surprise that my wife was diagnosed with colon cancer. Just the word colon cancer stirs emotions of fear of the unknown. Words of surgery, tests, chemotherapy and more was thrown around like a racket ball. Surgery was scheduled and friends called, emailed, texted and visited to show their support. Within ten days our emotions was torn from despairing words, "my wife died of colon cancer - she was gone within 60 days," to words of faith and love.

Moments of life have been recorded in journals. diaries, books and scripture when at 4:00 you are rejoicing and by 5:00 you are crying. When the children of Israel crossed over the Jordan River it was a divine moment of praise and celebration that was quickly commemorated and memorialized by placing 12 stones inside and outside the Jordan River. "For when your children come by this place they will remember what God has done."

With the surgery, tests, lab work and diagnosis behind us we now are rejoicing. The cancer was removed, found "in time", was contained in the colon, not in the lymph nodes, and no chemotheraphy. So when we talk about the "scare of the last week of May." we will rejoice when a "Moment changed into a Milestone."