March 29, 2022 - There was a story in today’s news about a man paralyzed by a gun shot wound who wanted to “buy out the gun manufacturers and melt down all their guns.” This is an all too-familiar American story… just another case of blaming inanimate objects for human sins and errors.
“Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.”
March 22, 2022 - Years ago after working in the garden and piddling in my gun shop, I came in to check my email. As I was reading it, I noticed a fly had flown into my half-filled glass of water. He was one of the bad ones (the green ones)… the kind that hang around carcasses and filth.
“Whosoever shall humble himself as a little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of God…” Matt. 18:4
March 15, 2022 - In the seventies I was asked to preach a revival in a Southeast Texas town and was warned beforehand that the church had deacon problems. Two deacons (the church’s only deacons) couldn’t agree on who should be the Deacon Chairman! (True Story). Sure enough, they sat on opposite sides of the church and never spoke to each other during that week.
March 8, 2022 - An empty stomach and a place to play hooky made Weaver’s Pond “the place” for my brothers and me. With a few hooks and a can of worms we often caught a needed meal for our family of eight children.
February 8, 2022 - When I was a teen-ager in Center, Texas, Daddy would take us once a year to Mill Creek to a Scaly-Bark tree. The nuts were smaller and more tasty than larger hickory nuts.
“I know what it is to be in need....but have learned to be content in every situation....” Phil. 4:12
January 24, 2022 - I once talked to a lady whose life had been a combination of partying, doping and abusing alcohol… and she blamed her parents for it all. “If they’d just paid more attention to me, I wouldn’t have turned out this way.”
“If you won’t forgive men of their sins, the Father won’t forgive you…” Matt. 6:15
January 17, 2022 - Most of us would like to have a better memory. The art of remembering (called “mnemonics”) is taught in the Bible and was once taught in public schools. My Pastor often told me, “When someone introduces himself to you, don’t you dare walk off and forget his name!”