Author: Steve Endress

Two years ago, my family went on an epic trip out west. You can read about that here. I asked my father last year if there was anything he’d wanted to do but hadn’t. He didn’t hesitate. “Visit the place of my forefathers in Germany.” I started making plans. Before you know it, we had…

A friend of mine often says, “you can’t hear the dogs that don’t bark.” While he is typically raising the point that only the squeaky wheels get the grease and that news media doesn’t tell the whole story, and so a wise consumer must ask the questions that have been unasked, there is another way…

This is day four or five, I forget, that we have been moving our bedtime and alarmtime earlier. Thursday at 4am, we leave for Ohare, but that’s not the reason we’ve been experimenting. Rather, it is because we will arrive in Zurich, Lord willing, at 7:35am their time, about 12:00am our time. A few years…

I have been enjoying a podcast by Ben Sasse, entitled Not Dead Yet. You can do background on him–a very inspiring person and gifted man. I love much of what he talks about and fully enjoy his openness. There is one topic that has been bothering me. It is his love for professional football (college…

This is going to be a multi-post topic, the reasons which shall be obvious as we go through this. This past week, I rejoiced to pay off the former owner of a business I bought. Since January, he has used attorney threats against me and turned a deaf ear to my requests to sit down…

Let me pose a hypothetical, though it is hardly that…this happens everyday somewhere. Suppose you are travelling and happen upon a conversation with someone which turns into them admitting that they used to go to church as a child, and no longer do…but after meeting you and seeing the love of Christ flowing through you,…

I’ve been thinking about values, creeds, confessions, statements. Our world is flooded with these types of things. Verbose, many of them. Generalities, most of them. Or, ridiculously specific which might be worse. Let’s try something different. How about we only make distinctions when it is different from mainstream or different from the standard. For example,…

Laying down your life is probably not going to happen in one dramatic moment like Dirk Willems is remembered for. How about in a thousand little moments? Serving others is dying a little bit each time. In that way, it seems to me, we lay down our lives over a thousand little moments. Check out…

What would be more impactful than what I’m doing right now? This is an interesting question, similar to the “you can’t hear the dogs that don’t bark.” If we are about the Father’s business all the time, this thought may not occur to us often. When we say “Yes” to the adventure of our lives,…

I was recently confided in by a friend that he wonders if he can ‘feel’ the Holy Spirit. He asked if I had ever experienced Him. I shared that I had, indeed, experienced the Holy Spirit and gave some examples of ebenezers, life experiences, and divine interventions. My friend is on a faith journey, and…