Revolution Student Conference

This week my church, Cross Roads Baptist Church, is hosting the Revolution Student Conference. I just love the tag line: “a complete change in the way we think and act.” One cool new part of the conference this year is that we are taking up a special offering for Blood: Water Mission who helps [...]

Have you ever dreaded doing a task? Depending on how bad you are dreading something it can make you physically sick.  I remember feeling like that every morning before I went to court when I first started practicing law.  It is a little better now, but I still get very nervous because I want to [...]

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope you have a great Memorial Day.  I will be spending the time away from the office hanging out with the fam.  Hopefully, the wife won’t work me too hard today on my day off.

Shuffling Papers

As an attorney, sometimes I get funny looks from prospective clients when I tell them my fee.  The hard thing for some people to imagine is they are paying potentially thousands of dollars for a few pieces of paper.  Sometimes, there really isn’t anything tangible that they are getting from me.  People are paying for [...]

I am starting to study through the book of Nehemiah in my quiet time for the next couple of weeks or so, and I plan to journal some of the things that stand out to me.  Some things are rocking my world and I hope they have some meaning for you.
I guess, my posts will [...]

Man, do I hit a wide range of topics on this blog.  Well, as you know, I’m an attorney and one of my practice areas is in the estate planning arena…I like to call it family life planning.  One thing that I have realized in my practice over the last couple of years are that [...]

    Continuing on in my Where’s the Real [Blank]? series, I wanted to talk about some of the internal issues young professionals deal with. See the first part of this series: Where’s the Real [Blank]? The first is a lack of confidence.  This was a problem that I faced right after I took [...]

    Recently, I have found myself reflecting on the last year and a half or so.  Things have been extremely busy.  I wanted to give a little introduction on some of this stuff because it will impact a lot of what I write about on this blog. 
    As you know, I am an attorney in [...]

    Well, hello!  Welcome to my blog!  I wanted to introduce myself and invite you to participate in the blog as much as possible.  My name is Tripp Atkins and I am a husband, a daddy, a Christian, lawyer, and some other stuff - I’m sure!  In my day-to-day life and daily Bible studies, I [...]