With Teacher Appreciation Week at hand, it is a great time to thank the men and women who work tirelessly to give our children the educational foundation they will need to...

John 3: 1. Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you...

Philippians 3:13. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14. I...

My husband and I have a little game we like to play to help us remember the incidents that happen with our four sons. It is a year-long contest, if...

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). Humans put a lot of confidence...

Luke 12:16. And He told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to...

Genesis 11: 1. Now the whole world had on language and common speech. 2. As people moved eastward they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3. They said to each...

Being a guy who grew up in the South, I knew about as much about sled dog racing as I did about an elephant’s heart rate. Actually, I probably knew even less about racing...

My father was anything but a rich man. Severely burned when he was a boy, he dropped out of school in the third grade and went to picking cotton to help the family. Later,...

Genesis 3: 4. “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,...

I typically sit in the back of the church when I am able to attend and, when I’m not, I watch the service online. Technology isn’t it great. I was...

Exodus 14: 11. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of...

As you probably know, I am a veteran of the United States Navy. Spent part of my younger days trolling around the world on a flat-bottomed ship dubbed “The Great...

I’m going to let you in on a trio of little secret that aren’t really all that hidden about our house. First, my granddaughters, Jewels and Gemmers, can pretty much do...

Since She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Made-Mad and I lived for many years in Nome, Alaska, you probably won’t be surprised to know that I still follow events that take place in the...