This episode explores the profound stories from Matthew 14, including the martyrdom of John the Baptist, the miracle of feeding 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes, and Peter walking on water. It emphasizes faith, trust in Jesus’ boundless gifts, and lessons on doubt and belief.
1 April 2026
This month’s issue of The Cornerstone is out now, read it at thecornerstonepress.com My phone call with the radio station owner went well, maybe you can hear my voice on the radio soon. Next week we’re going to try to meet up at the station. On top of the opportunities at the radio station, there may be uses for the surrounding land, for instance the owner has a snowcone stand their. He also let me know that my city has a local paper, so I reached out to them as well if they’d like any help or to talk to me. My pursuits to purchase a commercial property have changed. The building I was looking at has unpaid taxes and a company has already bought them. This puts a lien on the property and would have to be settled before selling, in other words too much trouble to be worth the effort. I’m fine with a rundown location, cleaning up dirt and debris takes a little effort and the difference is visible. Cleaning a legal mess is near impossible. Unfortunately for our city, that building will probably remain empty for another decade. When I walked around the other day, there were a couple store fronts with boarded up windows and I’ll work with my realtor to find an active seller. Likely everyone is too in their own world to care about the effect their environment makes. Broken glass theory is that in a city if a person sees broken glass on the streets, they’re more likely to throw their trash on the ground. Good examples matter and have a compound interest effect.
30 March 2026
I’m back online and setting standards to warm up. We had some highs and lows on vacation, but that’s life. This morning after dropping off the elder princess at daycare I went to the county clerk’s office for information about a commercial property I’ve been inquiring about. There was good news and bad news. Good for me was there are unpaid taxes, the difficult part is the property was handed down by a will and there was no contact information for the owner. By calling the attorney who handled the estate I could at least get her number, that’s progress. On another front, I found a local radio station and last week emailed them to say hi and share what I’ve been up to. The owner emailed me back saying we should talk about what I want to do on the radio. I’ll try to call him tomorrow for a fun conversation I’m sure. There’ll be a new issue of my newspaper on Wednesday April 1st, and the Wrecking and Rapping show was maintained through time off. After finishing this I’ll go to record another push up video, currently up to number 16 out of 22. That leaves two or three weeks of recording at my current pace. With my coffee brewing, I made my first batch of cold brew and it’s delicious. Life is good, it will take some time to get into the swing of things. The beginning of the year is most important to me as it’s the least important to others. After Christmas time, advertising drops and so do content creators since they’re not being paid, that leaves space for me.
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11 March 2026
I’m taking a vacation. Been on a good streak for awhile and got a lot accomplished already this year. Check out my newspaper at www.thecornerstonepress.com if you haven’t already and I’ll be back in a couple weeks. The show should still be out on Saturdays.
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5 March 2026
The kids are getting sick, there’s not much sleeping, so there won’t be much writing. Everything is coming along well, it’s a luxury to struggle and still survive. In time, everyone will be healthy again, today is about getting through. My push up videos continue, I’ve got 6 out of 22 complete. If I continue doing 3 videos a week, I’ll be done with time to spare. That gives me the expectation of slowing down at some point. A new printer I ordered for the newspaper should be arriving today along with other equipment for that purpose. Life is good.
4 March 2026
The difficulty of having new ideas is to everyone else they’re wrong ideas, at least that’s how people justify never having thought them. They don’t want to consider there’s a path they didn’t explore that came to a new conclusion. The leader has to motivate people with an idea they’ve never heard before and then lead them through new challenges. All the while the followers will be complaining and struggling against their own leader. The Israelites said to Moses, “It would be better we were still slaves in Egypt where we had food, then to starve in the desert.” I want everyone to be a star, but the reality is most people are below average. What I’ve come to accept as a leader or a social media influencer is followers have to be below the leader, if not the roles should be reversed. A struggle is created where the leader is hated for instructing people against their intuition and the followers are hated for needing to be told what to do; yet they need each other. I can’t tell you where we’re headed, only that we need to escape to the desert. The thing that doesn’t exist yet, we’re going to build it. When asked how I know it’ll work, I don’t know, but am saved through faith. After 40 years of wandering, Moses lead his people to the promise land, but never entered it.
3 March 2026
Yesterday, I mentioned it’s hard to get people to think which got me thinking on thought. I always said I started thinking when I was 17 and my first decision was to drop out of school. One thing I knew was I didn’t like it there. Then I had to figure out how to feed myself and the Army looked cool. Once in the military I began taking my studies seriously because sleeping in a hole in the desert makes one reconsider life choices. Once at University I met Socrates and loved him and philosophy. Most people hate everything about it, but there is a blood sport to discourse. Socrates made people think, made me think in new ways I never did before and it was painful. Learning something new is hard, whether that is attempting to memorize or walking through a new destination. The brain can be overloaded with information, that’s where I see the brain as a muscle that needed to be exercised. Age 25 is when I started to take reading serious, before then I would literally travel the world to avoid reading a book. I started with high school reading I should have done 10 years prior, graduated college, and came to know Nietzsche. Intellectuals should cower at the name. From there I learned a lot, Nietzsche’s idea of the Ubermenche, or Overman, motivated me to be better in every aspect; taught myself to paint and play piano. Currently, I’ve started studying for the LSAT. There was a practice question on what is “proven” in a writing. When studying and learning a new perspective to see life, I felt the same pain trying to understand Socrates’ way of thinking. If anything, I’m speeding up and intensifying.
2 March 2026
After the events of this weekend, I started the presses on my newspaper. https://www.thecornerstonepress.com/ The picture is of a tiny library and bench I built to house the paper. The bench, or as I’ve been calling it the newsstand, is placed by the road for passers by to take one. I’ve been preparing the newspaper for awhile now and was waiting for what event would warrant a start. During the initial pandemic lock down, the “two weeks”, I was walking my dog in a park and the entire outdoor park was shut down. There was yellow caution tape wrapped around the equipment and buildings. I remember walking through that scene knowing something big was happening and that I had to prepare fast. I’ve had the same feeling in recent weeks, like then as now, I was prepared and could jump into action right away. Aside from telling my discord war has been coming, this add trust in my judgement that the day after I had everything ready to start a physical paper including housing and a website. It’ll be a monthly issue, so check it out now and come back then. The other side of the paper is the cafe, where people can read and talk about the paper. With everything I also provide myself to talk. I write first for myself, next to educate others. My hope is my writing is of a level to challenge people, if that’s the case, then they are left with questions and I must be there to bridge their gap in understanding. It’s hard getting people to think.
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