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Spent a wonderful meal with my wife, Erin, at Rochester's Red Cow restaurant!  Great food and a great atmosphere!  Very pleasant waitstaff as well - knowledgeable, helpful, and eager to please!  They are going to open their patio…

I went for a jog/walk again today.  It's nice that the weather is getting nicer so I can try again to create a habit of exercising outside this spring, summer, and fall, which (hopefully), will carry me through the winter…

I wanted to direct your attention to The Living Loved Life portion of The Fatherland website. It is a podcast idea to train ourselves to notice that The Holy Spirit has been speaking to us all this time and we…

I think creativity comes from The Holy Spirit.  As I look back on all the things I've written, the acts of love I've done, and certainly the following of Jesus to The Father, I've concluded that none of it's really…

This morning I felt again this kind of "pressure" in my upper body/chest/abdomen/gut/heart whatever that I have associated for years with the internal pressure of the Holy Spirit prompting me in my life.  Today, I was feeling it even more…

Bill, a high school teacher turned self-made millionaire, discovered at age 35, that if he purchased a used, reliable car instead of new (forgoing the car payment, the higher insurance for it being a newer car, the maintenance if it's…

I have been “Love Waiting” since 1987.  In eighth grade, I attended my parochial school Bible study class entitled, Love Waiting.  It was a contemporary plea for abstinence to a new generation.  (To be honest, I was more interested in…

We understand there are physical rules that govern life on earth.  Gravity, motion, force, etc.  And everything that exists here or has ever existed on this earth has been, at one point, created.  There is nothing here, that just "is."…

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…

A mark of the Christian - the Christ-follower, the Christ-way - is whether they can forgive and reinstate. (That is what Jesus saw his father doing in him.)  I have rarely met someone who forgives (let alone reinstates people).  (Except…

Jason Gray said it was a pleasure to work under the authority of his son on The Kipper Gray Sessions.  I want him to talk more about this because THIS IS KEY to understanding how to enjoy our relationship…

I think men (and women) too often hide behind the excuse of stereotype... I find it hard to believe that men are THAT insensitive or THAT thoughtless or THAT emotionless... I think it's an excuse to not have to try…

Jesus does all the work to make us into disciples... 
And, as we are being MADE into disciples we make other disciples... 
And, as we make other disciples, we continue to be MADE by Jesus. 
It's a life-long... way of…

This is why God just loves us into relationship with him - why He just loves us into real truth... If he were to do anything else, he would be accused of trying to gaslight us all into loving him…

Andrew Peterson in his Easter Monday concerts has said that he has seen so much beauty in life - so much goodness - so much of God showing up in other's eyes, that he's convinced there must be a God

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Jason Gray concert at The Vine Church of Walker, MI with my whole family is awesome!

I am so grateful about everything this weekend. I don't regret driving 9 hours from Minnesota - hoping to experience what the Holy Spirit…

10 (or so) questions with... Drew Jarrod
Rochester Magazine, January 2012 Issue
by Steve Lange
Photo by Erin Jarrod

Drew Jarrod, Stay-At-Home Dad, Writer, Musician, and Songwriter...
(you can find his songs at drewjarrod.com or on iTunes).

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Mystery Man
Rochester Magazine, February 2011 Issue
by Jennifer Koski
Photo by Jerry Olson

The Couple:
Drew and Erin Jarrod
(As told by Drew)

On our 10-month anniversary, Erin was to meet me at my apartment at 10 a.m. so…

Recently, when a friend expressed interest in taking photographs, I thought she might be interested in using our camera to take pictures of us for music albums or book covers. She eagerly agreed and commented many times how much she…

Specifically, I am wondering if God speaks to men and women differently... (but listing any way in which God speaks to you will be helpful.)

As a woman or man, how does God speak to you?
Do you even hear…

Life IS NOT Meaningless. There is hope. Yesterday I spent the day with my oldest boy and we went to a park. On one of the metal park beams holding up the slide was a message written in black marker,…

Just got back from a week’s vacation. The last one was five years ago and was not relaxing at all.  I’ve never had a relaxing vacation in my life until this one.  It seems like I’ve been gone for a…

Faith comes from reading the Bible.  A Christian's salvation is fact if they believe in what Jesus did by His suffering, death, and resurrection.  That is, He took our place on “death row” so we could be freed from jail…

Musician Works On Second Album
by Phil Groth
Photo by Erin Jarrod

Drew Jarrod hasn't been writing much music lately.  He's been focusing on recording.  "It can be tough," he said, "because of all the options that technology allows."  Jarrod…