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1. Do You Have an 'I Work for Jesus' Attitude?

Once as I sat on a 737 getting ready to leave the gate at the airport, my window seat overlooked the luggage loading area. A large tractor had pulled the string of carts up to a long conveyor belt that ...

Created on 22 January 2017

2. What Happens When You Actually Listen to God

True friends are hard to come by. Ron and Jackie Hill are those kinds of friends. While we only go out with them about once a year, it feels as if we have just seen them the week before. We know that if ...

Created on 23 October 2016

3. This Revelation Will Strengthen Your Spirit

Mrs. Smith has actually been the premier apple pie maker in our home. My wife makes the best coconut cream pies in the world from scratch, which is the only way I will have pie. Since I don't like apple ...

Created on 03 July 2016

4. Is It All Worth It?

Early one Saturday morning, I was sitting on the deck watching a female robin build a nest (or rather try to build a nest). She had chosen a location on the downspout that comes off the gutter. The spout ...

Created on 01 May 2016

5. Is Your Reality an Illusion?

A few years ago, my wife, Tammi, and I were with a small group of friends. Brock Gill, an amazing Christian illusionist, was a part of the group. Someone asked him to do a couple of  "tricks" for us. He ...

Created on 10 April 2016

6. What to Do Until the Storms of Life Blow Over

Recently I heard a meteorologist on the Weather Channel say something profound—No one knows when, or where the next devastating storm will come. But we do know this; there will be another storm." Sounds ...

Created on 06 March 2016

7. When Life Gets Tough, Simply Do This

A strong-weathered hand tightly gripped the razor sharp knife raised over the body of a young boy lying loosely bound on a crude, makeshift altar. An altar covered with dry wood that the same boy had carried ...

Created on 24 January 2016

8. What If Wal-Mart Really Could Sell Hope, Joy and Peace for $2.99?

What a value. Last year, a colleague related an interesting story. Evidently his daughter needed some new Christmas plates. Those of us who are men should be very grateful that God created women to live ...

Created on 20 December 2015

9. No Matter What You Are Going Through, God Is Your Help

When my grandson, Elijah, was 2, he loved Lego building blocks. I was constantly amazed at how he would spend hours building and creating with blocks that I could barely stack into a rickety tower. Elijah ...

Created on 01 November 2015

10. Are You Deserving of Two Extra Scoops?

My wife and I had just finished a wonderful dinner at my son's home with he and his wife and two of our grandchildren. We were relaxing in the proverbial "food coma" when I asked the next logical question—"What's ...

Created on 11 October 2015

11. When Your 'Peanut' Can Tips, Do Peanuts Spill Out?

Peanuts. It is amazing that I still love them after all the drama they caused me as a very young boy. My mom kept a very large can of them in the cabinet. She kept a container the size of a tub of coffee, ...

Created on 13 September 2015

12. What is the Best Kind of Love?

"Who gives this woman to be wed to this man?" Even though I was expecting this question, hearing it asked by the minister (who is my other son-in-law, Evan) caused a bit of pause. Keep in mind that other ...

Created on 31 May 2015

13. Do You Ignore or Acknowledge God’s Protection?

I was going to a birthday party. Like any great Pappy, I stopped on the way to the party to get my grandson, Elijah, a present for his first birthday. He was at the age where he mimicked sounds. If you ...

Created on 26 April 2015

14. Be of Joy, For We Know What the End Holds For Us

One of the things that good "Baptists" did not do back in "the old days" was go to the theater. As a very young boy I wasn't sure why, but it seemed to have something to do with going to Heaven, along ...

Created on 29 March 2015

15. What Happens When You Listen to God

True friends are hard to come by. Ron and Jackie Hill are those kinds of friends. While we only go out with them about once a year, it feels as if we have just seen them the week before. We know that if ...

Created on 27 December 2013

16. How to Magnify the Lord in Your Life

Growing up, we never had PlayStation, Wii or Xbox. We lived on a small ranch in Colorado and had a lot of work to do. Cleaning stalls, painting fences, irrigating the pasture and picking up rocks (Colorado ...

Created on 26 November 2013

17. Trusting God When Your Dreams Are Shattered

I recently had the incredible opportunity to go sailing with some dear friends in San Diego. We spent the afternoon on Terry and Connie’s 30-foot sailboat on an exquisite Southern California day. Beautiful ...

Created on 25 January 2013

18. What if You Prayed Adventurous, Courageous, Audacious Prayers?

One year for Christmas our family decided to implement a new idea. We had been discussing wanting to cut back that year—partially because in prior years we seemed to really go overboard. We were buying ...

Created on 03 December 2012

19. Follow the Directions

It was Election Day. My wife and I chose a time of the day to go vote when things would not be so busy and we could just get in and out. As we walked up the sidewalk to the building where the polling was ...

Created on 05 November 2012

20. My Help

My 2-1/2-year-old grandson, Elijah, loves Lego building blocks. I am constantly amazed at how he will spend hours building and creating with blocks that I can barely stack into a rickety tower. Elijah ...

Created on 15 October 2012