4 fearless friends trek through 15 miles of mountainous wilderness right behind Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

We spend Meg's 25th birthday, taking a ferry to Seattle and seeing all the sights. 

Exploring Bremerton/Paulsbo Washington - and visiting with my brother Jake and his family.

Our family gets a new piano, and the Fredrickson's come over for dinner. 

A beautiful fall Sunday spent at home as a family - baking cookies, and keeping Gideon satisfied.

Jonah and I explore under a bridge beside our house.  

We're excited to announce the latest addition to the Lueders family: Gideon Augustine "Gus" Lueders.

Now is the time. No more sowing the seeds of judgement, and destruction

Will anything that I am doing today - anything that I am investing in, pouring my heart into, cultivating - will any of that still be around 100 years from now?

Waikiki hotel, Hickam Beach, Shark's Cove, the Pali Lookout, the Dorman's home, and the Ko Olina lagoons.

USS Arizona Memorial, Leeward Community College, and Hickam AFB.

Meg and I are spending a week in Oahu - my childhood home of 13 years. 

The waiting is only as good as the awaited. I have never been ashamed of waiting.

In the wake of Ty and Terri's unexpected death a few weeks ago, I found myself reading Ty's book A Thousand Screaming Mules for the first time.

Generation after generation strives after earthly reward – and generation after generation vanishes into the void of history.

Today I am a new creation. Created by the very hand of God. The God I belong to; the God I worship.

From my seat on our back deck I can still hear the constant rush of traffic all around me.

Jesus had a deep, focused faith on the joy in front of him - on the other side of the cross. So he endured.

You want to delight in my life, now - just as I delight in yours.

God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything, but he himself gives life and breath and everything.