Code Purple: The Finish Line

Here is the devotional: Today’s CODE PURPLE is talking about your retirement years.My wife and I are still 15 years away from retirement in the “retirement talk” sense. But after seeing how some people retire, I don’t know if I’m looking forward to that kind of retirement. I’ve never worked for a company that has…

Code Purple: The Empty Nest

Here is the devotional: Today’s CODE PURPLE is talking about your kids moving out.This one may hurt a little bit as we are going through it right now. My youngest son is getting married in less than 2 months, and my oldest son looks to be on the same path soon after. We homeschooled our…

Code Purple: Health Smealth

Here is the devotional: Today’s CODE PURPLE is talking about your health.I started taking Karate at age 5 during the Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris early years. My Dojo wasn’t a belt farm that had 37 levels and just moved you up so you would keep paying. I had an old school Sensei from Japan,…

Code Purple: Team On 3

Here is the devotional: Today’s CODE PURPLE is talking about parenting.In today’s culture, men are portrayed on TV as this ignorant goofball that can’t be expected or trusted with anything important. He’s selfish, inattentive, lazy and just a poor excuse of a husband. While mostly in sitcoms, I don’t think many men fall too far…

Code Purple: The Hubba Hubba

Here is the devotional: Yep, we’re talking about sex. As a teenager, I thought that when I got married, we’d have sex every day. It was probably the hormones of a teenager talking, but that is what I thought. After all, my wife and I both waited to have sex with each other until we…