My greatest challenge seems to be prioritizing my day. There’s a lot of things I enjoy doing; a lot I want to get done, and an awful lot I need to get done. I don’t have the time now to do all the things on my agenda. Regardless, I took on a new task. We needed the money, so I added a part time job to my schedule. Now as…
Faith is incredibly important, and whether or not you realize it, you exercise faith everyday. The question is, where do you place your faith? The Bible defines faith like this. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 ) Let’s consider that definition… “The substance of things hoped for.” You enter an address into your GPS You run down directions through…
I have a balance disorder that I’ve lived with my entire life. Because of it, I didn’t learn to walk until I was three. It took me longer to learn how to ride a bicycle and I never mastered roller skating. I easily lost my balance and fell, even as an adult. Since poor equilibrium kept me from walking a straight line, I couldn’t march in military basic training. Over…
As I mentioned in a previous blog, when we lived in Valdosta, Georgia, we started a Bible study in our home for the single GIs who were stationed at Moody AFB. One of our regular attendees was Rodney. He became a good friend. He enjoyed playing with the kids or serenading little Jamie on his guitar. Rodney was also a member of our church and he was just as faithful…
The United States of America, despite all her problems, is still the greatest nation on Earth. Our freedoms are second to none, although we are gradually losing them one by one. We reside in a nation where we can select our careers, live where we choose, attend church and worship God without fear of retribution, share our faith openly for the most part without being arrested. Most American believers have…
I John 3:17-18 says, “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” As children of God, we need to do more than tell someone we love them, we must show it through…
My heart goes out to the Filipino people since the typhoon that devastated their island. I cannot begin to understand their heartache and sorrow at the loss of life and the destruction of everything precious to them. Not to mention, their struggle just to survive; to provide their families with the most basic of necessities – food, water, shelter, and safety. And then I thought about those still recovering from…
A couple of weeks ago, as I was leaving a parking garage, I turned too quickly and smashed my driver’s side mirror when I spun it right into a concrete post. The instant I hit it, I jammed the brakes, but it was too late. The damage was done. For the next two weeks, as I waited for the new mirror that the car dealership ordered, my side mirror displayed…
Missions is the very heartbeat of God. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Because God is holy, the price of sin must be paid. Yet, at the same time, He loves us tremendously and doesn’t want to see anyone die in their sin. II Peter 3:9 says, “The…
Sometimes as believers, we wonder why God allows a sudden calamity to knock us down, especially if we’re attempting to walk in obedience. And we might get so focused on our circumstances that we fail to recognize God’s hand of mercy and continual blessing throughout the situation. Back in the early 1980’s when Floyd was still in the United States Air Force, we lived in a double wide mobile home…