Senior Year has arrived, and it is BIG. My class is finally at the top of the food chain! I am so excited to see how we will impact our high school. There has been so much hype around my particular class; how we are the "best" class or the "most godly" class my school has had in many years. I hope that, as a group, we will take the challenge of proving them right. I hope that we leave ourselves behind and that we would make a difference for God. That God would choose to use us to change the lives of hundreds of kids right in our school hallways. Or that He would choose to use me. I know that I don’t have to be who the world tells me to be, because I’ve been forgiven and set free. My prayer for this year is that I'll be a soldier, prepared for a year of battle. Although I go to a Christian school, not everyone there has a relationship with Christ. So I pray that this year, and my Senior class, will change my high school radically.  read more

This week has been a blast. I invited 5 friends up to spend some time with my family and I in Michigan. Whether it was golf early in the morning, basketball before lunch, then swimming or tubing or fishing or soccer after lunch, or a great game of wiffle ball, everything this week was a competition! Especially late night boardgames of RISK. One night, we had a short power outage, so we lit the table with all sorts of candles. It looked so cool! It almost felt like we were all real generals, back in the middle ages, planning a top-secret attack in the middle of the night. It was thrilling and such a fun week to spend with my closest friends... a bunch of great guys who love Christ and are unashamed of the gospel.  I'm so grateful to God for giving me such amazing friends!  read more

Oh, man, do I love summer!  Last week, the whole family was celebrating as my cousin, Katherine, got married. I’m so happy for her and her new husband, Austin. It was a beautiful wedding and a great party. Congratulations, guys!!  (Remember that I told you I was really getting into soccer ever since my trip to Germany, right?  Well, unfortunately though, the U.S. lost to Ghana earlier that morning...but we quickly got over that and enjoyed the day.) It was an especially eventful weekend for my aunt and uncle. On Saturday night, they had their daughter's wedding, then the next morning my Uncle David (Katherine’s father) was on Fox News, defending our faith. See, he is starting a church plant in the area and recently bought a large cross from an old church that, sadly, was turning into a humanist church and didn't want it anymore, saying it was too "Christian" and offensive. Uncle David was happy to use it at the location they are putting their new church. Well, the fact that the old church was taking down their cross became such uproar in their community that it made the national news. Although he only had about a minute to talk about it on Fox News, he totally nailed it! He talked about how Jesus says that He is the way, the truth and the life and that He is the only way to the Father... and because of that, the image of the cross is very important to Christians. We were so proud of him. It was really early in the morning and we were all watching in our pajamas, cheering him on bedside! If you're interested in seeing the clip, you can view it at:  read more