My husband and I have been married for almost 34 years and we’ve always had an open door policy. In February, 2012, we opened our door to a good friend who needed a place to stay. At that time, I thought there was a good possibility that she might be with us for a year or more. She moved into her own place eleven months later. The following month, our…
I love to travel. Between being a military child and a military spouse, I’ve been through three-quarters of the United States. But as many times as I’ve crossed through Arizona, I’d never visited the Grand Canyon, so my husband and I packed up our grandsons (ages 11 and 13) and took off for the Grand Canyon. We stayed in a resort in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the staff there helped us…
God’s ways are not our ways. In fact, very often God’s ways are the complete and total opposite of ours. Americans teach their children the importance of self esteem, but God says in Galatians 6:3, “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” So when we pump our children full of self esteem, we are training them to think highly of themselves. …
We live in a society that teaches about rights. Rights. Rights. Rights. Everybody has their rights. “I just want what’s rightfully mine.” “I have rights, you know.” “It’s my right.” A right is something that’s owed you. Whenever we feel that someone owes us something, then we do not feel obligated to offer them any gratitude in return. If you loan a friend $50 and he pays you back on…
I received the following in a missionary prayer letter and thought it was powerful food for thought, so I requested permission to post it on my blog. Due to the dangerous mission field in which the missionary is serving, he asked to remain semi-anonymous, posting only his first name. Often, I receive many emails forwarded from friends, and have numerous internet articles, published by believers, sent to me warning of how Muslims are…
Leading children to the Lord can be a unique challenge because they’re easily led – but they’re just as easily misled. So when a youth worker asks the children in Sunday school, children’s church, or Wednesday night Bible club “Who would like to be saved,” it’s crucial that the youngsters understand the question and comprehend the gospel. Otherwise, our children grow up thinking that they’re saved because of some type…
Childhood evangelism is incredibly important because the best time to reach a soul for Christ is while their young. The difficulty lies in knowing when children understand that they’re sinners, in need of a Savior. That is different for every child. I knew a young girl named Billie who got saved at age three. She was thirteen when I met her. Her parents were missionaries to Greece, and her mother…
Jesus loves our children far more than we do and He watches out for them in ways that we can’t, simply because He is omnipresent and can be with them everywhere they go at all times. I could have easily lost my son that day. I’d taken my seven-year-old to a doctor’s appointment down at Children’s Hospital and I left my two older children with a neighbor around the corner…
When determination strikes a child of God, especially when it regards a responsibility that we take seriously, sometimes all common sense (by worldly standards) is disregarded. You have only one thing on your mind and that’s accomplishing your goal. When that happens, God may intervene (before we hurt ourselves), but sometimes He chooses to overshadow us with His protection and see us through the danger. When Floyd transferred from RAF…
After serving three years of military duty at Alconbury, England, Floyd received orders to Valdosta, Georgia. Our official PSC (permanent change of station) date was around January 7, 1982, approximately two weeks after Christmas. That’s when we were actually getting on the airplane to go home. The military allowed us one week in billeting (the base motel), which meant that December 31st was the soonest we could check in. During…