Breaking Up Your Fallow Ground

First, thanks to all of you who sent me well wishes and prayers; they were greatly appreciated. Praise God I’m 100% recovered. Fathers, during the next planting season I want you to get a pack of seeds, corn, whatever, and gather your family and find the hardest,...

In Light Of All Eternity, It’s Only Temporary

Some days I can get so anxious. I too often try to project myself into the future, both near and far, and it only adds stress to my life. That is a rare occurrence for me…stress that is. I live about a 95% stress-free life. Now don’t confuse that with not...

A Gentle Reproof

I just read a verse in Proverbs again for the first time: “Rebuke is more effective for a wise man than a hundred blows on a fool.” (Proverbs 17:10) Don’t worry, I’m not going soft on anyone (wink). Seriously though, I am trying to use wisdom in what I am...

The More I Know The Less Sure I Become

This weekend I sent the following email to a dear brother in Christ: Yes, but how was your heart changed? How was mine? How is mine? I promise you my brother 12 years ago you would have wanted nothing to do with me or even believed I was saved for that matter. God is...

Never Any Vague Sense of Sin

How bad is your sin? No, no, not to God! We already know how bad our sin is before God. How bad is your sin to YOU?! Do you have categories of sin? Do you rank your sin from bad to worse? Do you compare your sins to other, consciously or subconsciously? Have you come...