Raising up families in Christ
- WELL ARMED CHILDREN
I grew up in the country. We learned to fish and to hunt quite early in life. My generation was trained to use weapons for hunting, practically from the first grade. I had shot several calibers of weapons by the time I was in third grade, including a 16 gauge shotgun, a .22 pistol and [...]
- CATTLE DRIVES
Some of you already know that on my way to my wedding, I was delayed by a cattle drive, which completely filled the mountain road that I was travelling on, to the site of our wedding. Now, I guess, you all know this. The steep hills bordered both sides of the road. There was no [...]
- FEELING THE LOVE
Is there a lot of hate out there? Is it just me? I hope so. I’ve spent that last few minutes listening to a report about a shooting at the National Holocaust Museum, located in Washington D.C. The person who did this horrible act was full of hate. He is 88 years old and his [...]
- WEEDS
Weeds are a common thing. Everyone has weeds somewhere in their life. One interesting point is what constitutes a weed. I was talking to some folks the other day who are immigrants from another country. They were working outside in their garden, trimming and pruning a rather large plant in that garden and pulling the [...]
- MEDICINE
So, you go to your doctor and the doctor prescribes you a medicine, for whatever. You go to the pharmacy, fill the prescription and head home. You take your first couple of doses and you start to get some relief from your symptoms. Then it happens, a few hours into this, you begin to acquire [...]
- PARTY LINES
Years ago, not all phones were private lines. Some of us had party lines. A party line, as strange as it may seem today, was literally a shared telephone line. Not shared between the living room and the bedroom, but between homes. Yep, that’s right. You had one line and you had your home phone [...]
- MOWING
When I was growing up, my parents had a lawn which was roughly the size of Rhode Island. My job was to keep it mowed. I hated that lawn. Every week I’d be out there with the mower. No self-propelled job either. I was nearly old enough to move out of the house when they [...]
- SALAD
What is salad? Is it everything? Did you ever notice that if you order a salad at a restaurant, that it’s green, with stuff like lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber and some dressing? A salad has mixed, raw vegetables, right? Oh, okay, if you prefer, then you can make it with beets, beans, or some other [...]
- THE FROG AND THE SCORPION
One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped [...]
- YESTERDAY
There’s a song that the Beatles made famous entitled, “Yesterday.” The lyrics start with, “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they’re here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday. Why she had to go, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say. I said something wrong and now I long [...]
