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Join us on The Trail To Adventure, a weekly 25-minute radio program that takes you on the journey to meet with well-known Christians who enjoy the outdoors.
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All of us at some time in our lives go through a painful loss. As a child, something small seems impossible to get through and as we get older small things become big things. No matter what it is that we face, there is always a way to get through. Today's guest will share a story of how he and his wife got through the untimely death of their young son and how God blessed them as they learned to deal with their loss. If you have suffered loss or are a person that is always worrying about a potential loss today's program should give you great hope and tools to live by. There is hope in the worst of situations when you give God the reins in dealing with life's worst circumstances.
There are so many times when we're going through really hard times and we begin to feel sorry for ourselves. We can allow those times to make us feel defeated and that life is unfair. But if we really look around at those around us, can we honestly say that? I've got it pretty easy compared to some others. As we listen to today's program, we will hear from a young man with a "glass half full" attitude who has spent his entire life in a wheelchair and yet often in his life he says, "I've got it better than many others."
There are many times where we are struggling hard to hear a voice of direction for our lives. These messages can come from many places and many people, but the messages that we hear from God Himself are the most important ones. On today's program, we will hear from a husband and wife who were blessed with an inheritance of a family property that had all the potential to do great ministry on it. Lakes, streams, swamps and hardwood ridges make this place something special.
In hunting and fishing, we often learn hard lessons by the proverbial, "one that got away". The buck we missed, the trophy fish that broke off either at the boat or when it wrapped around a submerged tree. Every failure that we face in the outdoors or in life is the making of a lesson that might change our lives. On today's program, we join our host and his guest as they spend a few days hunting Illinois' trophy whitetails in the Golden Triangle. Dean had spent much of his life dreaming of hunting this hallowed whitetail ground and his error in judgement cost him the possibility of fulfilling his dream.
Most all of us who love the outdoors has at one time dreamt of how we could spend every day in the outdoors doing what we love. Life can be hard. It can be unfulfilled or it can be exciting and satisfying every day of our lives. How can we get there? On today's program, we will hear from a young man who thought he had everything he could want in life. He was living like the world tells us is satisfying, but then God allowed an obstacle into his path. That obstacle nearly cost him his freedom, but God had a bigger plan for his life.
In most of the nation, we are in the middle of the fall hunting season and as we think about the game we are chasing we know that they are extremely sneaky and elusive. God created most every game animal to be a master of hiding and they do it well. On today's program, we will meet a father and son as well as our host and his grandson who all love the outdoors and love each other. They have a passion for all things hunting. They will share the story of how the son became like the trophies he pursued by being able to hide the truth about his life and his actions. But there is truth in the bible verse found in Numbers 32:23 where it says, "be sure your sins will find you out".
There are hunting and fishing buddies who get together for time spent in God's Great Outdoors and there are outdoorsmen and women who are always looking for an opportunity to spend time with others. Not having someone to share these times together in God's creation takes away from the experience. On today's program, we will learn about a ministry that is serving outdoorspeople and sharing an important message in the process. They are building long term relationships with those they are reaching out to. We will hear about our guest's special needs daughter and her learning to love the outdoors.
All of us as hunters and fisherman have stories of the One That Got Away. These stories live on for a lifetime and often grow with each new season. The pain of loss eats at each of us more as time goes on. On today's program, we will hear from a husband and wife team who have lived most of their adult life in some of the least populated areas in the United States. They have had to learn to adjust to a life that many couldn't handle. They felt called to this place and this life to serve the Lord. Hunting became a big part of their life there and disappointment became part of hunting.
Every one of us face storms in our lives from time to time. Some are just passing sprinkles that look bad as they are blowing in and others seemingly tear our lives apart. Where we take our shelter against these storms is what makes a difference in how we survive them. On today's program, we will face different storms. First, we are in the midst of an actual thunderstorm which has a little effect on some of our sound quality and actually knocks out the power at one point in the recording. The second storm that we will visit is a disastrous one that our guests went through in their lives when they lost their young son to cancer.
Like a farmer who plants seeds for future harvest, if we know Jesus Christ, we are called to be seed planters. If we fail to plant seeds, there will be no harvest. On today's program, we will meet a pastor who felt a calling as a young boy and then spent his life living out that calling. Over the last 50 years he has spent his time planting churches across the state of Utah and then spent several years teaching church planting to a new generation of potential church planters.
Often in life, we start feeling sorry for ourselves because things haven't turned out the way we had hoped. We grumble and complain when things get tough. God never promised an easy or smooth flight, but he did promise that if we rest on Him, we will have a safe landing.
Often times we to come to places in life where some major change takes place. Generally we can see the cause and effect of those life changes. Some changes are for the bad and others are for something very good, even though we might not immediately see it. This is the case of our guest today. Living through a near death experience that left him with very limited use of some parts of his body and forcing him to have to retire from a job that he loved, the tragedy did turn into something much better. God will often change our direction to bring others to Him, for His glory. We can't fight it, just trust Him and grow through it.
Once in a while, we come into contact with someone who has a heart so close to our own that we wonder if we have a blood relationship. You think alike and share the same convictions in life. Well today's guest impressed on our host a feeling like that, although their accents are completely different! Our guest will share how he came to realize that he had a serious obligation to raise his kids in a godly life and that he needed to be an example to them. Today we will share those things and some stories of hunting and family memories from past generations. We think you will enjoy the heart of this young man!
In life, there are very few things that can continually stabilize us when things get shaky and unstable. But in the archery hunting world, there is a product that works to stabilize camera equipment in a great way. On today's program, we will meet the head of marketing for a great product line that includes the FOURTH ARROW camera rests as well as many other products. Hunters are filming their own hunts more than ever and this company's products are top of the line when it comes to the tools to make hunters more successful in the field.
There is something that has an amazing impact on human life and it's not limited to those of us that live comfortably here in United States. It's the Gospel message and it has an impact around the world to all people in all parts of the globe. On today's program, we're honored to have two men who have spent their lives serving the Lord in other part's of the world. One of these men has spent all 70 years of his life deep in the Venezuelan jungle, living with the Yanomamo tribes. These people have been known as some of the fiercest people of all time.
While there are many who do ministry in life, there aren't too many who have a calling to live out a life of ministry fulltime in every aspect of their life. Make no mistake, if you know Jesus Christ, you are called to do ministry throughout your life… but for others, such as today's guest, it's their vocation as well as their advocation. From a calling within his ministry, a life of carrying for kids and their families within the hunting and fishing world began. With over 1000 kids and their families served each year, they are having a huge impact on families across Texas. And they do all this as a service, often for free!
For every one of us, our lives are planned out by God… What we do with it is on our shoulders. We all have a choice to live for the Lord or live for ourself. When we allow God to have control of our lives, amazing things can happen. Today's guest made a choice when he was young to leave his upbringing to live a life that seemed fun. So many of us do that. Soon after he realized what had felt like fun had a cost and was empty. He shares how Phil Robertson made an eternal change in his life.
The sound of a hammer against steel is unmistakable in knife forging. Sparks flying and the ringing of steel against steel is all part of what it takes to take a worthless piece of iron from the ground and turn it into something beautiful and useful. On today's program, we will meet a young man with a passion for turning something seemingly useless into something that is beautiful and useful to the master. He's a knife maker and he uses a forge to not only share a Gospel Message, but to teach through discipleship those who are looking to be forged into what God wants them to be.
Many times in the Bible it tells us to be bold. What God wants is for His children to stand up and stand out for Him. To share the good news of Jesus Christ at every opportunity. This week's guest is one man that I have chased for an interview for over 2 years and I am privileged to sit and hear his story of duck calls and salvation. He is known all across North America by the sound of his voice or a photo of his face…. And I am doubly honored to spend a day in the booth with him.
Sometime in our lives we will come face to face with a bear. That bear might come in the form of a serious illness, a broken relationship, a financial struggle or maybe even a real bear. Whatever it is that you come up against, You can call on God to see you through. Today, we'll hear the remainder of Jim Vansteenhouse's story of being attacked and nearly killed by a giant grizzly. Jim tells how God spared his life after the bear tore him apart. Then he shares how God used him to share a story of redemption to tens of thousands of others who are coming up against their own bears in life.
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