Category: Notes From The Road

We’re home. Front Range FREEDOM Tour is finished. The tour was much more than I imagined. It’s hard to believe a week could pass so quickly, accomplish so much, and leave me so drained. Our team truly left it all on the road. Normally I’d feel guilty about all that didn’t get done. I couldn’t […]

Popular perception tells us life’s full of coincidences. Two years ago I met Pastor Todd while I was speaking at a retreat in Moab, Utah. This week we needed a church to host us in Colorado Springs. Todd offered his church and invited us to their neighborhood block party, scheduled for the same night we […]

On a cycling team, the soigneur cares for the riders’ physical needs. He’s the servant leader of the cycling world. Susie and Leroy are our husband-wife soigneur team. They volunteered to spend an entire week driving our support vehicle and making sure our gear gets from place to place. They meet us at rest stops […]

It’s an incredible thing to concoct an impossible vision and then watch it hatch before your eyes. Saturday morning I felt a bit like a mother goose as I watched the line of cyclists roll away from the Wyoming State Capitol building in Cheyenne. The chicks were leaving the nest of this God-inspired dream. Front […]

Tomorrow we begin Front Range FREEDOM Tour. This picture captures how I feel as I anticipate the start of this new adventure. The open stretch of road above my front wheel seems like an empty canvas. During the next eight days our team will fill the canvas, painting a messy, beautiful collage consisting of nearly […]

The events of FLORIDA HOPE TOUR 2013 are oddly bracketed by two windows. On January 21 at one of our initial stops in Memphis, we gazed out the window through which James Earl Ray fired the bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Last Saturday we looked through a window on the sixth floor […]

Two months. A thousand miles of cycling—more or less. Twenty-nine speaking events. It’s been an amazing tour, an absolutely incredible experience. Who would have imagined that the very last question at the very last event would be perhaps the most challenging of the entire trip? We met Sunday evening with the youth group at Alsbury […]

“Why do people with the biggest challenges seem to take on the biggest challenges?” This insightful question followed a presentation to his church’s men’s group. He observed that those who’ve faced and overcome adversity often turn their efforts to some sort of extraordinary service. He went on to say something I hear a lot. “Your […]

I found myself thinking about our official theme song Thursday in the car. It’s a great song, and what’s the point of having a theme song if you don’t get it stuck in your head occasionally? If you haven’t listened lately, or even if you have, click here and enjoy some great music from Kristin […]

The generosity we encounter along our journey continues to astonish me. Authentic generosity is risky. Others might take advantage. Your efforts might be misunderstood or unappreciated or ridiculed. I’m humbled when someone courageously demonstrates no-strings-attached generosity. Generosity comes in many forms. Money, time, attention—people share in many different ways. The leaders who allowed us to […]

Curtis is a gentle giant. He says you should always try as hard as you can at whatever you do. He works on a supervised crew doing maintenance work. Mariah says people sometimes make fun of her. She’s learned to remember she’s one of God’s angels because it makes the words hurt less. Darrel’s proud […]

Sometimes it’s more important to rest. More important than just about anything else. This is such a time. We had a great day Monday speaking to two different groups. Tuesday morning brings an early wake-up call to drive and set up for a wonderful talk at Western Florida State University. I’m excited to see what God […]