When I was growing up my mother always asked, “Have you got clean underwear on? Make sure they don’t have holes in them.” I have discovered this was a common question for moms with little boys growing up in the 50’s & 60’s. When I think about it, mother must have accepted a known fact, …
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God School: Seek?
“Look it up!” Oh, how I hated that phrase. I usually responded with, “Come on, just tell me the answer!” This became much of my lifelong attribute. It’s a practice I see all too often today. Good people, so busy with no time to “search” or “seek” the truth. People coming to church with a …
God School: You Got To “Beat ’em” To “Clean ’em”
Friday was one of my favorite days in grade school. Usually, around 3 o’clock our teacher would announce who had eraser duty. Oh, what a privilege to be picked. A classmate & I would take the box of erasers outside to bang the erasers on the screen device removing the chalk from the erasers. I …
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Stopped In My Tracks!
It was just another Saturday morning. I was reading a book by one of my favorite authors, O. S. Hawkins, “The Joshua Code” when He stopped me flat-footed. He was writing about the family’s old iron bed. I visualized ours. It was the bed mother & dad had when they were first married. It still …
Can I Trust It?
I never thought too much about it before… grab bars are for old people. Welp, I am moving into that phase of life. When we travel, grab bars are one of the first things I look for. In the last 44 days Mary & I have been away from home 22 nights. Nothing causes me …
Lesson From The Farm, “If Your Tires Spin…Stop!”
Many times, we would harvest rice when the field was less than ideal. No one was exempt from getting stuck, but an experienced driver knew when to stop. All the equipment had very large tires with lugs designed to grip the soil. If the tractor or combine was moving it was great, but when the …
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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 …
X =?
“Solving for X. What does X =”? First, for me to be writing about solving for X only illustrates God’s sense of humor. Only God would pick someone who had to cheat his way through high school Algebra to write this message. In the math world, X is the unknown. In today’s world, Jesus is …
“What Mistake…?”
Before computers, when everything was written with a typewriter and forms were completed by hand, “Wite-Out” or a similar product, was at every desk. Because I spell so poorly, I always bought mine in the handy 6-pack. Wite-Out is a thin paint substance that is used to cover over mistakes. Wite-Out became more necessary when …
“It Was Only A Candy Bar!”
I must have been 8 or 9 when I walked down Highway 82 to Hughes Grocery store. When I saved up enough or I could talk my mother out of enough cash I was able to purchase my favorite RC Cola and Snickers bar. I remember when I first learned about inflation, cold drinks went …
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