Trevor Kastner

Trevor Kastner Caps 2022 Regular Season with Pasadena Bull Riding Title

A trip to the 2022 Wrangler National Final Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge was not on Trevor Kastner’s list of goals 12 months ago. A veteran of fifteen years in ProRodeo and earner of $1 million, Kastner was content with life at home with his family and traveling lightly to get on bulls here and there.

But the wins piled up all summer and Kastner is coasting into the final days of the season ranked sixth in the PRCA | RAM World Standings thanks to wins like the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo on Sept. 29. The final week of Kastner’s regular season included a win in Omaha, Neb., a third-place finish in Oklahoma City, and the 89-point effort in Pasadena aboard Universal Rodeo’s Chanler’s Dream, checks that totaled $10,918 in three eightsecond bull rides.

“This past month’s been good, I can’t complain for sure,” Kastner, 34, said.

After a good showing at the 2021 RAM Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo last October, Kastner hit the big winter stock show rodeos, earning third in San Antonio. He plucked around closer to home, winning Woodward, Okla. in June and made a modest Fourth of July run. But it was in mid-July when the goals began to change. “I started out just easing around and not planning to try to go to the Finals,” Kastner said. He was enjoying time at home with wife Kate and daughter McKenna, 4, and son Korbyn, 2. “Then I won a good bit out of Spanish Fork.” In fact, Kastner collected $22,505 for the Xtreme Bulls win there, a huge shot in the arm to his season. “My wife and I had a good talk after that and decided that I would try it out,” he noted. The checks kept adding up and Kastner was well over $100,000 won when he arrived in South Texas as the season closed out in late September. Riding on the final night of the rodeo in Pasadena, Kastner

Trevor Kastner wins the Pasadena Livestock Show & Rodeo with an 89 point ride on Chanler’s Dream from Universal Pro Rodeo. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Phillip Kitts.

got on a bull he didn’t know in Chanler’s Dream. “I actually didn’t know what he was,” Kastner said. “He was out to the left a couple jumps and then back to the right. It was good.” As one of only three men to make qualified rides, Kastner picked up a nice check worth $4,010, including the ground money. Kastner will make his seventh appearance at the Wrangler NFR in December and first since 2020 after missing the cut at 23rd a year ago. He’s got one last out for his 2022 season, the Xtreme Bulls event in Pasadena on September 30, before “I’ll take a pretty good break and spend time with my family,” Kastner said. “I ride quite a few horses when I’m home, colts, so I’ll try not to change up too much.” As one of the oldest riders amongst the NFR qualifiers, Kastner notes his motivation to keep going and winning is simple. “My wife and kids,” he said. “Knowing this is how I provide for them is my biggest motivation.” Article provided courtesy of PRCA.

Wyatt Rogers wins the final installment of the PBR Challenger Series residency at the historic Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned the victory with a ride on TM 43-G (Southern Cross Bucking Bulls). Photo courtesy of Andre Silva / BullStock Media.

Inspiration Point

by Keno Shrum

Autumn Reminders of an Eternal Kind

‘For “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.”‘ – I Peter 1:24 (NIV)

Fall. It is a season that reminds us of endings. Once thriving leaves now drop from their branches bursting with color, but dying. Beautiful summer flowers have lost their grandeur and now succumb to hues of brown and gray. Colder temperatures flow in and bright, long days full of sunshine move out. We are inundated with change. We are regularly reminded of our helplessness to stop the flow of God’s creation. We are caught between summer and winter in the fleeting uniqueness of autumn. Though the season brings its own joy with fabulous scents and colors of orange, yellow, and red; we know it is the end of summer and the start of a period of dormancy and cold.

As we enjoy the changes of fall, let it remind us of a vital truth. I believe God intends for us to see with physical eyes something that points to a lasting, spiritual truth. When you look at a fallen leaf or disintegrating, summer flower; think this thought:

“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” (I Peter 1:24, NIV, 1984) Let crinkling leaves and fallen blossoms remind us of something God wants always at the base of our thinking – we are finite and fallen and soon to pass. Any glory we claim to have is as transitory as summer leaves. We live and we die. We seek to accomplish much, but in the end we disappear from this earth. We cannot prevent our own demise. We stand helpless before our “fall.” Except for one thing! Notice the severe difference God highlights between people and His Word. People wither and fall as the grass. God’s Word stands forever! God’s Word never bends, stoops, or loses its glory. Its beauty never fades; it’s “color” never wanes. No season comes that stops God’s Word. It endures, and endures with full dignity – “standing,” as it were! No weather pattern knocks God’s Word down. No disease causes His Word to waste away. No disaster or tragedy causes His Word to twist or weaken. Through every change, through every heart break, through every earth-shattering event, through death itself; the Word of God stands!

I believe God purposefully showed us the drastic difference between our glory and His Word here in I Peter to remind us to stay focused on Him and not our own selves. I believe one of the reasons for autumn is to demonstrate through His creation an important reminder about human nature when compared to God. Our Lord graciously desires us to live with a constant awareness of our impermanent nature and His eternal nature. Of our failing attempts and His trustworthy ways. Of our sinfulness and His holiness. Of our dependence and His self-sufficiency. Of our need for His Word at the deepest and broadest levels.

You see, God reminds us at the end of I Peter 1:25 (NIV, 1984), “And this is the word that was preached to you.” This is no small or incidental statement! The Word that stands forever can be accepted into your own heart! The seed of God’s Word can be planted in your soul so that the death of you is certainly not the end of you!

God expresses this hope very succinctly in I Peter 1:22 (NIV, 1984), “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.” Do you see it? We can be born again of an imperishable seed through God’s Word! When I put my hope for forgiveness and salvation in Jesus Christ, I am born of a seed that cannot be abolished – a seed that lasts forever and ever. The enduring Word of God gives me eternal, unbending life. Come seasons, winds, storms, difficulties, even death itself; but I will survive and live forever because the everlasting Word of God has been preached to me. And I have gladly and humbly accepted!

Guest article submitted by HNH reader.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

INGREDIENTS

Crust: • 1⅔ cup graham cracker crumbs • ¼ cup melted butter • 2 tablespoons sugar

Cheesecake layer: • 16 ounces cream cheese, softened • ½ cup sugar • 2 eggs • ¼ cup sour cream • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pumpkin layer: • 1 cup pumpkin puree, canned (not pumpkin pie mix) • 2 eggs • ½ cup milk • ½ cup brown sugar • ½ cup granulated sugar • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 1 envelope unflavored gelatin • ¼ cup water

Submitted by Jacob L. - Fairfield, OH

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INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 325F, line a 9x13 baking dish with foil lightly spray with non-stick spray, set aside To make crusts: 1. In a medium bowl combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter until all crumbs are moist 2. Lightly press crumb mixture into prepared baking dish To make cream cheese layer: 1. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth, add in sour cream and sugar and beat again 2. Add eggs, one at a time, to cream cheese mixture, beating well after each addition 3. Add vanilla extract and beat one more time 4. Spoon mixture on top of prepared crust and spread evenly 5. Bake for about 30-35 minutes or until just set 6. Remove from the oven and cool completely on a cooling rack 7. While the crust is cooling prepare the pumpkin layer To make a pumpkin layer: 1. In a medium saucepan set over medium low heat, combine pumpkin puree, eggs, brown sugar and granulated sugar, milk, pumpkin spice and cinnamon 2. Cook and whisk every few minutes for 10 minutes 3. Remove from the heat and whisk in the vanilla extract 4. In a small sauce pan, sprinkle the gelatin over the water and allow 5 minutes to soften 5. Turn heat to low and stir to melt gelatin completely and then remove to heat 6. Add gelatin mixture to pumpkin mixture and combine until smooth 7. Pour the pumpkin mixture over the cooled cream cheese layer and place in the refrigerator to chill for several hours or overnight 8. Cut into bars 9. Serve with whipped cream if desired