From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 7: Striving Together

In part 6 of this series, I shared about my wife Colleen being my help meet. From that standpoint, God has truly blessed me. Colleen has fulfilled and continues to fulfill the position God intended for her in our family. Her willingness to submit to the Lord, rise up and be a Godly wife and mother is not an easy task I admit, but it is a blessing as she would share if asked. Actually, her walk with the Lord which has made her what she is today started just a few weeks before we got married.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 6: My Help Meet

As you saw in Part 5 of this blog series, God has blessed me with four beautiful children. These children could not have made it into this world though without my wife, Colleen. Having just celebrated Mother's Day, I shared with my children that very fact. The Bible says to honor your father and mother (Ephesians 6:2) and we were spending an entire day thanking Mommy for all she does for us. I told my children that they wouldn't even be here in this world had not their Mommy carried them for nine long months. However before Colleen labored four children into this world, she first became my help meet.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 5: The Five Year Plan

The previous four blog posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) described my journey to salvation from my sins and the process of the Holy Spirit working in my life to make me acceptable before God. From 2002 to present, God was (and still is) preparing my heart and life to provide for a family with children. He blessed me with a beautiful wife (on the inside and outside) that has always stood with me in the good and bad moments of life. When we got married in 2003, we decided to wait at least five years to have children. Why five years?

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 4: Growing in Grace and Knowledge

In Part 3 of this series, I briefly talked about the New Life I received in Jesus Christ. Most importantly, through God's Word He showed me that in order to be a Christian, I must not sin (see John 5:14 and John 8:11). This can be accomplished by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit which comes after justification or repentance of sins. During this series I plan to talk about how after receiving the New Life that only Jesus Christ can provide, I began to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18) which takes place through a process called sanctification.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 3: New Life

Have you ever wished at least once in your life that you could start over? Have you ever looked back on things from the past and desired to do things differently? Have you even wished you were born as somebody else? I can say with certainty that I was tempted with these thoughts in my early teen years. Thankfully though, I did not allow these thoughts to captivate me or control me. I was able to push forward and live out my life (as I shared some of those experiences in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series). And thankfully, although it was long overdue, I started a new life with the slate wiped clean.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 2: Dethroned

In Part 1 of "From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad", I wrote about some of my experiences during my senior year of high school with a specific emphasis on being crowned Homecoming King. I encourage you to read it here. For this post however, I will be talking some about my college years and how they ended in a way I was not expecting.

The "Homecoming King" (a.k.a. me) was preparing for college. Even though I applied to multiple colleges, I only had one on my mind to attend and that was Longwood College (now Longwood University) located in Farmville, Virginia. Colleen who was my girlfriend at that time (but is now my wife), had already been accepted into Longwood and was already attending a year ahead of me, so I had no intention of going anywhere else for college. Thankfully though, Longwood accepted me and I knew exactly what I wanted to be: a Biology/Earth Science teacher.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 1: Crowned

Some may not remember, some may not know, and honestly some may want to forget, but back in the Fall of 1998 (my Senior year in high school) I was crowned Homecoming King! Yeah, you heard that right. It really was an amazing moment in my life. From my freshman to senior year, I had actually been nominated and voted by my peers to be on the homecoming court each year in high school along with other classmates. However, senior year, there could only be one King and one Queen, so one can imagine how excited I was.