Why This Exists
“I'm not a pastor, a theologian, or an academic. I'm just a guy who went down a rabbit hole”.
I’m 63, originally from Eugene, Oregon. Married 41 years to a woman I’d be lost without, two daughters, a business I’ve run since 2011, twelve years coaching high school basketball. A full life. And for most of it, I had no real foundation in Christianity. None.
The honest part
I wasn't raised in a Christian household. When my wife and I got married, I started attending church — she had been a believer since childhood — but I had no idea what any of it really meant. I had never read a single word of the Bible. I believed in God, but my faith wasn't grounded in anything. Looking back, the best way I can describe it is that I was going through the motions. And on some level, I knew it.
"I was living a facade. Believing just enough to feel like I was covered, but never digging deep enough to find out if any of it was actually true.”
I'm not ashamed to admit that. I think a lot of people are in exactly that place and just haven't said it out loud yet.
A new city, a new neighbor, and a logo on a hat
October 2021
In October of 2021, my wife and I moved to Chandler, Arizona where we met a couple who lived next door in our condo complex. During a brief exchange outside of our front door, my wife noticed the logo on our neighbor's hat and asked what it was. He told her it was the logo of the church he and his wife attended. Soon after that conversation, we started attending.
It was one of those moments that looks completely unremarkable from the outside. A logo on a hat. A casual question. And yet, looking back, that small exchange put us exactly where we needed to be.
The moment everything changed
September 10, 2022
It started on an ordinary Sunday morning. The message that day was called "Trusting The Bible Today." I had heard plenty of sermons before. But this one was different — because for the first time in my life, a message wasn't asking me to simply believe. It was presenting evidence.
The detail that stopped me cold: over 25,000 archaeological findings have been discovered that support the accuracy of the places, people, events, and artifacts described in the Bible. Not interpretations. Not opinions. Physical discoveries — in the ground — that align with what the Bible describes.
"I remember sitting there with this overwhelming sense of disbelief — not in my faith, but in myself. All these years, and I am only now being exposed to evidence?"
It wasn't that the message made me question what I believed. I wasn't in crisis. It was something closer to the opposite — a light turning on. I had always believed, but that belief had been built entirely on faith with zero foundation in evidence. What I didn't know — what nobody had ever told me — was that the evidence existed at all.
I couldn't wait to get home. Before the drive was over I was already thinking about researching what I had just heard.
The rabbit hole
I started researching on my own — YouTube, books, articles, anything I could find. A few months in and I found myself now doing searches on the origins of life and a video thumbnail caught my eye in the sidebar of YouTube. It showed a strange, headless stick-figure-like object with two feet, walking along what looked like a tightrope. Curious, I clicked on it.
What I was watching was a kinesin motor protein — a molecule inside our cells — carrying cargo across the interior of a living cell. It was literally walking. Two feet, step by step, along a track that was being constructed right in front of it as it moved. Inside a cell. That nobody engineered. That just exists. Inside every one of us, right now.
"I sat there staring at the screen thinking: there is absolutely no way this happened by accident."
That video pulled me deeper into the world of cell biology and DNA, and what I found felt impossible to grasp. Inside every cell, DNA carries sophisticated information, a 4-letter digital code that operates like a highly precise instruction manual—which immediately raises the question: how in the world did that information get there? How did billions of individual chemical bases somehow arrange themselves into perfect order ?
I'm stunned—yet completely inspired, because deep down I already knew the answer.
The more I discovered, the more the evidence pointed in one direction—toward a creator. I felt something I hadn’t expected: not just awe and wonder, but an overwhelming sense that this was something I needed to share.
Why this site exists
I built this for the people I love — friends and family who’ve never had a firm footing in what Christianity actually is. I wanted something I could hand them that wasn’t preachy or confrontational, just honest: just look at this, and see what you think. That’s the reason, plain and simple. And if it also reaches someone who inherited their faith but never examined it — someone who, asked why they believe, can only say “it’s how I was raised” — that’s icing on the cake.
The part I can’t leave out
So here’s what I refuse to skip, because skipping it would make everything above a waste.
The evidence was never the point. It was the door. If there really is a God who wrote the code inside our cells, then finding that interesting isn’t enough — and believing it vaguely, the way I did for most of my life, amounts to nothing. The Bible puts the line plainly:
“If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” — Romans 10:9
Two things. Believe it with your whole heart, and say it out loud. Not a ritual — a decision you actually mean.
And I won’t soften what’s at stake, because that would make me a coward. The verse says you will be saved — and being saved only means something if there’s something real to be saved from. There is. This is the one decision in your life that doesn’t expire, and putting it off is not the safe, neutral ground it feels like. Choosing not to decide is still choosing. You can read every word here, nod, agree it’s all compelling, and walk away unchanged — but that walking away follows you past this life, and it doesn’t come back around for a second pass.
I’m telling you this plainly because I love you. If I believe what I’ve laid out here and then go quiet at the one moment that counts, I’ve handed you the evidence and hidden the conclusion. I won’t do that to you.
You don’t need to have it all figured out — I didn’t. You don’t need the right words or the right building or anyone watching. Right where you’re sitting: confess that Jesus is Lord, believe God raised him from the dead, and mean it.
That’s the real reason this exists. Not to win an argument — to see the people I love on the other side of that decision.
“Christianity is about having a relationship with Jesus Christ. It’s not about following a bunch of rules or checking religious boxes - it’s about grace”