I’m a dude. Although He has changed much of my dude thinking ways since 1984 when I came to Jesus, I am still a work in process. One of the areas He is working on is my entrenched way of focusing on performance. Performance is a core attribute of our culture. Did you make the …
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Why Do We Make It So Hard?
It was the annual Christmas party for the Civitan Center and Civitan Apartments. After a great meal, a local country & gospel group started singing Christmas Carols. They had only played a few songs when Abby (fictious name) walked up to the band and reached for one of the mics. She had not heard her …
“What’s Going To Happen?”
It’s incredible. We have a new and even worse crisis every week. Just when the current crisis begins to lose its fever pitch…BAM! Up pops even bigger crisis. No matter which 24-hour news network you watch remember this, they all have 1 thing in common, “making money” …and nothing sells like fear. Yep! Nothing glues …
Conditions…
I’ve noticed that the older we get the more we watch the weather. The local TV stations lead off with the weather each evening. In fact, a sizable portion of time is spent telling us what the weather has been like and predicting what it might do. When the conditions are good & unchanging, we …
Civil Defense
In Hamburg, Arkansas there was a “Fallout Shelter” sign on the Post Office building. It was a small Post Office that would only hold 50 or so people. I don’t recall any other buildings with this sign. I can only imagine the chaos that would have happened had it become necessary to be used. Growing …
Hungry Men…
“It’s more than a Bible study…it’s a community of men who love the Lord and each other.” “They were so happy to see each other that some men never took time to eat.” That is how the BSF Bar-B-Q Kickoff for this year’s Men’s Bible Study Fellowship has been described. Men, from all backgrounds, different …
The Power of His Word
I thought it was just a regular morning as I opened my Bible. I don’t remember why, but when I read Jerimiah 29:11, it was different. It seemed to jump off the page. I dated the scripture in the margin in my Bible. One month later as I sat in a local restaurant sharing chips …
Law Of The Farm: He Plowed The Beans Up…
A few days after the field of soybeans was planted it rained. It rained so much it flooded the field. Thankfully, we had several days of warm sunshine and wind to dry out the field. I remember the afternoon I walked with dad over the field. It had spotty green patches because only about half …
Protected
I remember going with my mother to her friend’s house. Her friend had called and said, “Come over and see my living room, Carpenter’s just delivered my new furniture.” I went with mom to her friend’s house. I could tell when she met us at the door she was surprised to see me, a 10-year-old …
“What Are You Fishing With?”
I’m not the best fisherman. In fact, I have several fishing stories about not catching fish while being with guys, and grandchildren, who do. One time a friend, after catching a bunch of slab crappie said, “let’s trade rigs,” you guessed it, he caught fish on my rig and his rig went silent, I like …
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