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.

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."

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.

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.

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.