Once the rice was about knee high…when it’s hard to see the snakes, my job was to be a flag-boy for the pilot flying fertilizer, herbicides, or insecticides. It was always just after the sun came up that I would wade into the rice field with the mosquitoes. A flag-boy is the focal point or …
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“Spoon Fed…”
We all start the same way, somebody spoon feeding us. It starts with a plan or strategy of selecting what “lil” Johnny needed, what he would eat, creative ways and time for the “event” and the clean up afterwards. For Mary & me, the sooner our children learned to use their own spoon, the better. …
Lessons From The Farm: “Do The Lights On Your Tractor Work?” Part 2
Growing up on the farm meant getting started early and working late. Usually, it began as the sun was coming up and working until the sun went down. But on this day…it went past “dark-30”. Planting & harvest have windows of time when they must be done. If a farmer misses the planting days, there …
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Lessons From The Farm: Planting Time
There are 2 basic ways to plant in the spring, Broadcast-Spreader (top picture) and Drilling. Growing up we had a red seeder wagon pulled behind a tractor. I remember we planted rice after we pulled the levees. My job as a 10- or 13-year-old was to ride in the back and shovel rice seed into …
The Choice…
The BSF study of Revelation has been incredible. Amid the mystery, the unanswered questions, the terrible wrath that awaits unbelievers and the Glory of God, one of my discussion brothers crystalized it all this morning. “We have a choice of who we serve, Him (Jesus) or me.” As I look back on my life, I …
Lessons From The Farm: Preparing For The Day’s Work
I remember those early mornings driving to the farm as the sun was coming up. I was groggy from little sleep, as we pulled into the shop to prepare for a day of planting. There was a ritual every man did before going to the field. All the discs, planters, and tractors had to be …
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“Be Still and Know I Am God.”
It was late in the afternoon, Thursday October 2, 1997, when the bus left the church parking lot. Like most God things, I had ideas…but really, I had no idea what He was doing or would do. I was along for the ride. During the forever bus trip I noticed more & more buses, cars, …
Practice For The Purpose
Football practice always started with “warm up drills”, then moved into contact drills (knocking each other down). After that there were the skill sessions of learning plays & moves…learning what to do, when & how. Then it was gut-check time. We would run wind sprints up and down the field. With my tongue hanging out …
“What’s The Answer?”
There I sat…It was the semester test in 9th grade algebra with 10 minutes before the bell and my test paper was almost empty. I didn’t then, nor do I now understand why I need letters to solve a math problem. But here I was. I needed answers. By the time my buddy handed me …
God School: Open Book Test
TGN’s, The Lessons From God School, illustrates the supremacy of His Word as the source of All Truth. It is the Guidebook For Living.” For Believers it is our cornerstone, our true north authority of right & wrong. When a Follower of Christ allows the Holy Spirit to whisper, guide & teach His Word, the …
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