Twice Found
Found as a kid. Lost my way. Found again with my eyes wide open.
The Twice Found Story
I grew up in Wilkes County, North Carolina. My dad was a preacher. So I heard the Gospel before I could probably spell it. I got saved at 13, and I meant it. I'd made an emotional profession of faith at church one night when I was six. Just because others were doing it. Then, while spending the night at my Sunday School teachers' house, I realized just how lost I still was and was led to the Lord by two wonderful people, Dale and Linda Hartness. This time, I wasn't just going through the motions because everybody around me was doing it. I believed it.
But somewhere between being a teenager who loved Jesus and finishing high school ... I let go. Not all at once. It was more like a slow leak. I didn't wake up one morning and decide I was done with God. I just stopped making Him the center of anything. I was still a decent enough person by the world's standards. I still would have told you I was a Christian if you'd asked. But I wasn't living like one. Not even close.
That went on for a long time.
In 2019, God got my attention. I rededicated my life to Christ, and this time it was different. Not because the Gospel had changed. It hadn't. It was different because I had changed. I knew what it felt like to walk away. I knew what it cost. And I knew, deeper than I'd ever known before, that everything in God's Word was true and that I'd wasted years ignoring it.
That's where “Twice Found” comes from. Found as a kid. Lost my way. Found again with my eyes wide open.
What I Do Now
I live in Winston-Salem, NC, with my wife Lisa. We've been married since 1994. We have three kids: Sami, Kayla, and Trevor. They're all grown now, which is strange to say out loud.
During the day, I teach math to high schoolers at Millers Creek Christian School. I also run a couple of small businesses; RankPDQ for SEO and SitesPDQ for web design. Before all that, I spent 15 years as a financial planner. Then, I spent five years trying ... unsuccessfully ... to be a rock star in a band performing all-original music. Life takes some turns.
But the thing that drives everything now is the ministry. The Twice Found is where I write, teach, make music, and try to say what the Bible says as plainly as I can say it. I wrote a book called Forgiving Like God that digs into what Scripture actually teaches about forgiveness, because there's a lot of bad theology floating around on that subject. I'm working on my next book, Depraved But Dearly Loved, which is about human depravity and the love of God, aimed at newer believers.
Why I Do It
I'm not a pastor. I'm not a seminary graduate. I'm a guy who got saved, walked away, came back, and realized that the Gospel is too important to keep to yourself.
A lot of Christian content out there sounds like it was written by a marketing team. Everything's soft and encouraging and carefully worded so nobody gets uncomfortable. I get why people do that. But it's not the whole truth. The Bible talks about sin, judgment, hell, wrath, and rebellion. It also talks about grace, mercy, the cross, and a God who gave His own Son for people who were His enemies. You can't have the second part without the first. And I think we do people a disservice when we try.
So that's what I write about. The whole thing. As plainly as I know how.
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