Well, it's good to be back in good ol' San Diego! To the left is a picture of Crystal Pier, an icon in PB. It's one of my favorite places and one of the first beaches I took my kids to when we first arrived back. God has blessed us with typical March San Diego weather, plenty of warmth and sunshine. It's nice to have tanned feet again.

In our 21 years of marriage, we have had three distinct phases so far. The first 4 or so years was finishing college for Kelley, doing youth ministry at Del Cerro Baptist Church and laying the foundation in our marriage. We left a very comfortable situation there to attend seminary up in Marin County and start a new life. God blessed us with 4 amazing years there and once again, we left a very comfortable situation for the unknown when we came back to San Diego to start a church. God was very gracious to us in that he allowed Coastlands Church to exist for over 13 years from core team development to the end.

Now we are in phase 4, returning to San Diego and ready to start something new once again. We are excited about buying another home here in San Diego, stoked that we made some cash on the sale of our home last Fall and way-stoked that just like 8 years ago, we are once again in a great place to buy a house. We've got a decent amount of money to put down and housing prices in San Diego are certainly good for buyers.

Please pray with us that God will open the right doors as we look to him for my next pastoring job and a nice house so we can resettle somewhere here in San Diego.

What's it worth?

Kelley and I watched a great movie tonight, "Flash of Genius." It tells the story of Dr. Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent wiper. It's a fascinating story of one man's quest/obsession to prove to Ford Motor Co. and the world that he truly was the inventor of this product. If you've seen the movie, you know how it ends. I won't give that away here. I would love to hear from any of you who have seen it though. It's a classic story of "gaining the whole world, yet losing your soul." (Mark 8:36) In the process of fighting for what really was rightly his, he lost his marriage.

It's a great movie because it makes you think about fighting for what is legally and rightfully yours, but at what cost?It's moral victory for Dr. Kearns in the end, but a sad scene when his wife walks away. I feel for the guy because it's great to see the little guy take down the giants (Dr. Kearns vs. Ford Motor Co.) but sad to see his family suffer. To me, it comes full circle to the wisdom of God's word on the value of our families above our jobs. Any time I see a movie where someone "sells their soul" for gain, it makes me dig deep and remember the greatest blessings God has given me, a personal relationship with Him and a beautiful wife and 5 amazing children.