For the past few weeks, I have been saying something in my concerts that some people have been joking with me about after the shows. I have been saying that I don’t consider myself a “trumpet player”, but I do consider myself a messenger of the Gospel and I use the trumpet as a tool to spread the Gospel. I feel that so many people these days want to be labeled or have a title. They want to have a "Dr." before their name, or be recognized for...

Where did this summer go? I like having a slower summer schedule so we can do more family things, but this summer has been crazy busy with so much that we have not had the “family summer” we wanted. I am definitely for education and for my kids to be in school, but with school starting in a few weeks, I get jealous of school because it sometimes feels like it takes my family time away. I guess we will just have to make the best of every minute...

I have done concerts in so many places - and I really do enjoy what I get to do, but there are some places we go that I just don’t understand why we are there. I had a recent experience at a church that I just don’t know why we were there. The concert was fine, they responded well, but no one really seemed to react to the challenge and invitation towards the end of the concert. We finished the concert, packed up and drove home. The whole drive...

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend and had the opportunity to go to a service that honored our fallen soldiers that gave it all so we can live in this awesome country. A lot of band and other ministries seem to get very busy during the summer months, but we are a little different. I can’t say we do it on purpose, but our summers are usually not full of tours but just long weekends and a 3-4 day trip here and there, but just not any...

One of the big challenges with this life is balancing the ministry and road life with home and family time. The first part of this year has been very busy with a lot of tours and being away from home, but the next four months, even though they are busy, will be much more home time. I am very excited that this month I will have the honor to play my trumpet before Congress. We also have an initiation to play for the House Of Representatives. I...

It has only been two weeks or so since I did the last update. Not much has happened since then. We've had a few concerts, and Easter was great, but the fun thing that I get to talk about in this post today, is that Kelli and I just celebrated our twenty year Anniversary. The last twenty years have been with many ups and downs in life and this ministry, but through everything, God has been faithful and my beautiful wife has been right beside me...

Some tours are very easy and others have challenges. This tour I just ended on the west coast had a few challenges with our truck. I had two different issues that I was able to work through and get fixed, but boy, can it give you some stressful times when you’re that far away from home and have vehicle problems. In those kind of situations, I really like to step back, take a deep breath and let God show me the solutions through the experience...

What a difference a week and several hundred miles makes. This morning I shoveled snow off my driveway as the wind was blowing a lot of snow in my face and taking my breath away. Just last week, I was down south in Florida, Georgia and the Carolina’s enjoying warm weather. Like I said...what a difference a week and several hundred miles makes. The south was a blessing to us. We had great concerts and saw God do work in people’s lives. One of...