Riding for the Brand

<p>This second book of Riding for the Brand is for a different brand a different season or era. After founding and directing Lone Tree Bible Ranch in southeastern Wyoming for forty years Bobbie and I moved to Arizona and planted a cowboy church called Fire Rock Cowboy Church with this new brand or logo: a backward F connected to an R circled with a C.</p><p></p><p>The name Fire Rock comes from Matthew 3:11 and Luke 3:16 where John the Baptist says Jesus will baptize you with His Holy Spirit and with fire.</p><p></p><p>And the Rock comes from a message taught at Lone Tree where I encouraged young people to get out of the muck of their condition and stand on the rock of their position in Christ.</p><p></p><p>This entire book of life stories and messages is designed to encourage and inspire everyone to step out of religion and into a relationship with God Himself to get on this journey and experience of a lifetime. Jesus told stories everywhere He went. People could relate to His stories about fishing shepherding planting storms and climbing a mountain to get peace and rest. He was about loving people where they were but loving them enough to stretch them beyond where they were.</p><p></p><p>To graduate to living equivalent to who Jesus says you are. To start living out of their true identity. To start experiencing a life of the impossible. Let's start being the platform God can use to glorify Himself and honor Jesus.</p>