RECENT PONDERINGS

Read His Word in order to hear his voice

By andydarnell | Jan 30, 2026

Families who desire their children to grow up with a biblical worldview are choosing something important. They want their kids to know God’s truth and […]

Protests interupting a church service

By andydarnell | Jan 19, 2026

Yesterday, some protestors marched into Cities Church in Minneapolis, MN to protest Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement. They disrupted the service, they say, because one of […]

It’s in the source code

By andydarnell | Jan 17, 2026

Working on sending an email to our families this morning and, I couldn’t make a change that I wanted to do. When I clicked on […]

Freed to Lead – Summary and Review

By andydarnell | Jan 16, 2026

Summary and Review Freed to Lead is the story told by F3’s co-founders of how F3 Nation was created, even before they knew what they […]

Minus sugar

By andydarnell | Jan 14, 2026

For the first fifteen days of this year, I made a simple but intentional choice… no added sugar. No grand detox claims, no magic reset. […]

Block 1 – Widowmaker – New Years Day

By andydarnell | Jan 1, 2026

“You Idiots keep showing up!” That’s what HaHa said during the start of COT afterwards. If my memory serves me, today was my 5th Widowmaker […]

Let's Try This Again!

Hello. I'm Andy. I'm trying to blog regularly again. Clean Slate as of 12-17-25. I might add back a few of the posts that I liked. Who knows.

I'm a forgiven child of El Shaddai (yeah... that's just one of His names)

I'm a husband of my high school sweetheart and best friend.

I'm an extremely proud father of two incredible young ladies.

I'm the Kids Pastor at First Redeemer Church in Cumming, Georgia.

If you join me at 5:30 in the morning in the Gloom of F3Gwinnett or F3Alpha, you'll know me as Andy Darnell, 49, Homer. (almost respect)

I read. I'll write about what I read. I like space things. I'll write about those. I'll probably post an occasional beatdown that I particularly like to force our pax to do in the gloom. I'll probably write about me trying to get back to ability to run more.

I'll throw my 2026 goals in here soon.

Let me know if you happen upon this. It is nice to know someone else is here reading.