I don’t know what Scripturestead will become.
Right now, I’m building it wherever life gives me room—between work, family, football games, bills, responsibilities, and everything else that comes with being a husband and a dad.
Some days Scripturestead looks like a Bible app. Other days it’s a website, a research idea, an article, a page of code, or a conversation about something we might build years from now. There is a much larger vision in my head than what exists on a screen today, and I’ll admit that sometimes I get impatient because I want to see all of it working together now.
But Tonight, I’m Dad
Today I was thinking about everything that still needs to be done. There are connections to build, articles to write, research to organize, websites to improve, and plenty of things I haven’t even thought of yet.
But when I get off the school bus, my son has a football game.
So the website can wait. The code can wait. The research can wait.
Dad needs to be in the stands.
That thought made me realize something about Scripturestead that I don’t ever want to forget while I’m busy trying to build it: there will always be another task waiting. There won’t always be another night when my son looks toward the stands and Dad is there rooting for him.
Something My Children Can Carry Forward
Maybe one day, long after I’m gone, Scripturestead will still be here.
That thought hit me harder than I expected.
Maybe my children will look back through these early years and see what their dad was trying to build. Maybe they’ll laugh at some of the ideas. They probably should. Maybe they’ll see mistakes I made and wonder what in the world I was thinking.
But I hope they also understand why I kept building.
It wasn’t because I wanted to become wealthy. It wasn’t because I wanted my name on something. And it wasn’t because I thought I had all the answers.
I built Scripturestead because Jesus Christ changed my life, and I wanted to create something that might help someone else discover Him too.
If It Helps One Person
I have said from the beginning that if the work we do here eventually helps even one person come to know Jesus Christ, then the work was worth doing.
Of course, I hope it reaches far more than one. I hope Scripturestead becomes a place where people can open the Bible, ask difficult questions, study history, examine evidence, learn, challenge assumptions, and keep digging deeper.
I don’t want people simply told what to believe. I want them encouraged to open Scripture, examine the evidence, ask questions, and seek truth for themselves.
And through all of that, my hope is that they encounter Christ.
A Legacy Bigger Than a Website
I don’t know whether my children will want to carry Scripturestead forward someday. That will be their decision, not an obligation I place on them.
But if they do, I hope I leave them something worth carrying.
Not merely domains, servers, apps, articles, or code.
I hope I leave them a foundation rooted in Scripture, a commitment to truth, a willingness to ask hard questions, and a mission that always matters more than the organization carrying its name.
And maybe someday one of my children—or even one of my grandchildren—will build something through Scripturestead that I never could have imagined.
If that happens, Scripturestead won’t simply be something their dad built.
It will have become a legacy.
Rooted in Scripture. Standing in Truth.