Cultivate Courage Blog

Yesterday, Sunday, May 3, was a milestone in my life. I turned sixty years old. Truth be told, I never thought I would celebrate a 60th birthday or even a 50th. You may know from reading previous posts that my dad died very suddenly from a heart attack when I was 14...

I’m not even sure where to begin or, really, how to write today’s post. I had an experience last week that I am at a loss for words to explain. As a Christian I believe that God is speaking to me through this experience and that he is calling me to something but I’m...

The image you see below is one I took several years ago while on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. What you obviously can’t see is the sad story behind the image and the lesson it teaches. We were working in a small village up in the mountains. On the first...

A few weeks back I was driving on interstate 94 in western North Dakota on my way to a training gig in Montana. I was passed by a large pick up truck that kicked up a good-sized stone and it gave me a nice chip in my windshield. Upon my return home I called my...

As a young boy Saturday mornings were all about cartoons. I would get up with my brothers and we would get our breakfast and then fight over which animated show we were going to watch. When Saturday afternoons rolled around it was time for classic black and white...

I remember sitting at the dinner table when I was about eight years old when my dad asked my mom about a story on the nightly news. This would have been in the mid-60s. He said, “Did you hear about that man in New York City that got beat up and robbed in broad...