Preparing Your Kids for the Real World

It was black on Highway 96, our road home from a little project at our church, Spring Meadow Baptist Church. Without warning, a clump of grass just off the shoulder gathered itself and began running alongside the shoulder, as if to race us home. Then the “clump...

Leaving and Following

Mark 1:18 “And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.”Leaving and FollowingMy grandfather put a borrowed saddle on a half-broke mare named “Go West” in 1930. He was only eighteen years old, but both his parents were dead. All he...

Version 1.0

Matthew 28:18 “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”Version 1.0People are always looking for a better version of what they have. Do you know any technology buffs? The latest and greatest gadget will...

Good Work or Waste?

Matthew 26:10 “When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.”Good Work or Waste?Will you waste this day, or will you invest it? Nearly two thousand years ago, a woman named Mary broke open...

How and When to Bring Your Child to Christ

For any earnest parent, there is a tension between the desire to bring a child to Jesus and the fear that a child is too young to decide.  I well remember how I felt when each of my children was at the age when I wasn’t certain how much he understood, but I...