Live Fire with Chuck Holton

I was at my son’s “football” practice the other day and started thinking about how different kids games have become since I was a kid. My boys are in Upward flag football, a no-contact version of the game. They are, however, still required to wear certain safety equipment, like mouth guards. Since it was looking like rain, they had moved the game inside, lest anyone catch a cold.

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I Saw a Man Die Today.

Was on my way home from a speaking engagement in Sunbury, PA today and a semi truck passed me going at a pretty good clip. I pulled in behind him, hoping to catch his draft, but when I realized he was doing almost 80 in a 55 I backed off. This was on a 4-lane state highway – Route 11 north of Harrisburg.

About three minutes later the truck was blasting through one of those wide-spot-in-the-road towns along the route (I think it was new buffalo) and an elderly man tried to turn left in front of him.
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Monte Perlin is a highly sought after Hollywood stunt coordinator. And he can do stunts on a motorcycle that would make you faint. The guy is amazing, and really fun to be around.

He’s working recently with Pureflix entertainment/Signal Hill Pictures on a series of movies that you can actually watch with your kids. Imagine that!

Monte’s show airs today on the 700 club. Check it out on the web.

Ah, it’s that time again – Elections. Pardon me while I spit. There, that’s better.

I generally don’t like engaging in politics, just like I don’t like changing dirty diapers, but I realize that often both are necessary.

However, I heard this speech by Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee today on the radio. Man, was it inspiring. This sounds like my kind of guy. And very well spoken, too.

Some excerpts that had me cheering:

I was a Baptist pastor before I got into politics. Don’t let that make you too nervous. Some folks ask, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to Heaven. Dear friends, I’m much more narrow that that; I don’t think all the Baptists are going to make it.

for us pro-life is not simply a passion and concern about a child before he’s born, but it’s a passion and concern about that child after he’s born because we believe life is precious, life is valuable and that is our value.

I’m not real fond when people try to tell me that I’m just against same sex marriage. I tell people I’m actually just for keeping marriage in the only manner in which it’s even been known in any culture in any civilization throughout all of history, and dear friends, until Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain saying he’s changed the rules, let’s keep it like it is.

As you probably know, I’m usually ranting about the evils of watching television. Well, I’ve got to admit that tonight, there’s one show I just have to watch.

ABC’s Wife Swap tonight will feature a family that are members on my “other” website, Homesteading Today. The Clover family in Texas has been participating over there for a year or more, and they recently got selected to participate on the show.

It’s funny how the internet can bring people of like interests together – over at Homesteading Today, there are lots of people whom I consider to be good friends, whom I wouldn’t recognize if they came up and kissed me. I’ve never met them face to face, but we’ve been having good conversations for years. Isn’t that strange?

I have had the opportunity to meet several people from the forum, and it’s always surprising to find that you have so much to share with someone that, under normal circumstances, you’d never have met. The great thing about Homesteading Today is that it brings together people from very different backgrounds and worldviews, and lets me learn about and love on people other than just my church family.

I had a few minutes to do some light reading the other day, so I picked up Stephen Hawking’s bestseller, A brief History of Time. One sentence jumped out at me as I read, which coming from an evolutionist seems something like a profession of faith.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realisation that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

As it turns out, Hawking, the world’s best known scientist, is actually married to a Christian woman. How’s that for a surprise.

Here’s some more interesting reading on the subject of Hawking.

My house is crazy. These five kids are tons of fun, but sometimes I think this place is like living with the cast from “Braveheart” as they try to learn the mambo.

That’s a good picture of my life, lately. Well, except for the whole dancing thing.

Sorry for the slowness with which I’ve been adding content lately – while we haven’t yet become full-fledged boondockers, I have been racking up adventures faster than I can blog about them.

After Seattle, I ran down to Fort Benning, Georgia to speak to the 75th Ranger Regiment at a prayer breakfast. I always love doing that. It was fun this time to take along a couple of teens from our youth group – and watch them try to look cool in front of some of the most lethal soldiers on the planet. Hee hee.

Then I swung by the house long enough to change clothes and write the last scene to Island Inferno, then grabbed the family and drove to Maryland, to attend the 40th anniversary celebration at Redland Baptist Church. This means that only one church remains on my quest to visit every church that I’ve ever been a member of, all in one year. It was great to spend the weekend visiting with old friends at Redland. On saturday night we listened to a concert by Calling Levi – and these guys are great! They travel the country in a bus – two sisters, their husbands and five (total) children, and a nanny. Sounds like a screenplay. But they sure can sing!

Finally, we trucked back home so I could finish editing my next adventure segment for CBN. It’s about stuntman Monte Perlin, and it’s going to be good!

We won’t be home for long, though. I’m speaking on Sunday at Emmanuel Bible Felllowship in Sunbury, PA.

On Saturday I got the priviledge of speaking at a one-day men’s conference at Christ’s Church in Federal Way, Washington. The event was well-attended, and it was great to get to know yet another group of like-minded men who are committed to being not just good, but better.

Click here to download an .mp3 excerpt from the first session.

After the event, I had the rest of the day to kill before my flight left for home, so my buddy Kevin Stigers and I went downtown Seattle and visited Pike’s market and the REI mothership, which was fun, in a budget-busting kinda way. But hey, that