Posts with the tag “daily”

Today is our church’s annual car show. We do this each year to get to meet some new people, give them a  chance to be on our campus and for us all to be able to see some awesome cars! It isn’t a huge ...  Read More

A guy was selling his car and when a prospective buyer came by he began his sales pitch. And he told about all  the good things he could think of that the car had to offer. And then at the end he said...  Read More

I have a buddy who is a real “car guy” and his sons love cars too. As his boys were growing up, they loved to  drive and as teenagers tend to do, they would wait until that gas gauge was flirting with...  Read More

It was the day after my birthday, and I was going to get to have my first real “kids” birthday party. I knew my  mom was going to make this a really special day for me. I had just turned seven years o...  Read More

This is a day that I took time to look back on my life and remember some of the things that are rooted in my heart. My Dad, who has been gone for nearly 20 years now, coached a number of high school s...  Read More

I’ve always been a bit awed by men and women who can fly airplanes. To be able to handle a machine that flies through the air, with all the things that you have to know and remember just amazes me. Th...  Read More

I ran across a comedian online who said that he dreamed of going into a parking lot full of cars and putting notes on as many cars as he could with the message “I’m so sorry for the damage I caused”. ...  Read More

I was given a wonderful gift of a memory stick the other day. My cousin had put in a number of pictures that she had access to, and I spent a long time looking at photos of my parents and our family. ...  Read More

I read a story about some years ago St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City was seeking a new president. Over one hundred candidates applied for the position. The search committee narrowed the list...  Read More

One of the things that we all take for granted in our culture is...salt! Yeah, we don’t think about how wonderful salt is. For us it seems to be everywhere and is one of the cheapest things to buy. Bu...  Read More

I love building models. Airplanes, ships, tanks and sometimes even cars. I got started as a kid. My dad built me a little yellow model of a Cessna airplane and I loved it and there began my hobby. I f...  Read More

I just got back from vacation. We had booked our place for the family back about December of last year. We watched month after month pass by with increasing anticipation for having the family together...  Read More

One of the ways that Jesus describes his relationship with those who believe him and receive him is to call you friends. When you think about your friends, or even what kind of a friend you are to oth...  Read More

I was talking to a friend the other day and I found out that they knew my next-door neighbors. My neighbors follow this Jesus of the Bible, and they really are great folks. They are both in the medica...  Read More

“Tell me the truth all the time...I can believe you all the time. Tell me the truth some of the time...I can never believe you.” You may have heard that before and all of us know the reality of that s...  Read More

I recently heard that in the United States of America, you have a right to remain silent. But few people have the ability. How often have you said something and immediately knew that you should have j...  Read More

A high school student was in a store and spotted his third-grade teacher. He didn’t think she would remember him, but he went up to her and said “Hi, Miss Spencer”! “Hi Jimmy” she replied. “So, you do...  Read More

I was watching a video of a really talented and committed guy challenging college students to follow this Jesus of the Bible. During his talk to the young people gathered outside around him he said th...  Read More

It was one of those things that I had planned with our team at church months ago. We had done it before, and it was an easy and fun activity for kids and parents and grandparents. We all buy train tic...  Read More

My Mom used to tell me the story of the first time that we traveled to the Grand Canyon. We parked and walked up to the railing. My mother said that my dad lifted me up in his arms and let me see the ...  Read More

We are getting ready to restart our AWANA Club next month. One of the things that I like best about our AWANA is the emphasis on helping kids learn how to memorize Bible verses. Why do that? Well, onc...  Read More

I like to scan Facebook to see what people are thinking, advocating or even advertising. I want to see what people are talking about and what they are being bombarded with. I ran across something that...  Read More

I was watching one of my favorite westerns the other day (while on my bike!) and I hadn’t realized how often they used the phrase “There are two types of people in this world...” and then there would ...  Read More

I started watching an old “Doctor show” on Amazon Prime while I’ve been putting miles on my stationary bike. I have to put a lot of hours in each week and part of the time I will tune in to this show....  Read More

A buddy of mine handed me a slip of paper after our worship service and on it was written the world BIBLE. But it was written down the paper rather than across it and it said this...B asicI nstruction...  Read More

I’ve done it before and I’m going to do it again at church. I found out that the folks at my church love the sourdough baguettes from Sam’s Deli! Now when we get done with church, folks will usually h...  Read More

I was with a group of guys at church the other day and we started talking about some of our pet peeves. One that we all agreed that we disliked was the way that people would leave shopping carts all o...  Read More

My brother and sister and I did something we’d never done before. My brother set us up to go to a theme park on the other side of the country and when he began planning, the idea was that as many of o...  Read More

I ran across a story of a lady who was comforting her son after both grandparents had died within a year. She said “A few weeks after the death of my father-in-law, I found my seven-year-old son cryin...  Read More

I can remember my Dad telling me stories of some of the experiences he had as an infantryman during WWII in Italy. He told of a day when they were moving across an open area that had been a vineyard a...  Read More

When I was a kid, I remember sitting on the couch with my Dad watching our black and white TV. One of the things that he liked to watch and really fascinated me was getting to see a “Demolition Derby”...  Read More

America was going to the moon. But on January 27, 1967, astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were doing routine tests while in the Apollo spacecraft. There was nothing out of the ordinary happening w...  Read More

My Grandmother Pettit had a great, loving relationship with this Jesus of the Bible. She was passionate about her faith, and I have told others that I felt like she prayed me into the Kingdom of God! ...  Read More

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL (1582)It was April of 1775. The British had just attacked Lexington and Concord in an effort to seize the colonists weapons and ammunition. They were marching back to Boston and the...  Read More

The great American author and humorist, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons), once said “It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.” I like th...  Read More

The comedian and actor of the last century, W.C. Fields, was hospitalized towards the end of his life. A number of folks came by to check in on him and one day a fellow actor walked in to his hospital...  Read More

I was out with my oldest granddaughter and on the way home, told her we were going to stop at Hobby Lobby for just a second, because I wanted to just run in and see what their selection of model kits ...  Read More

Imagine that you won a contest and the prize was the gift of $1,440 given to you each day...for the rest of your life! That would be awesome!! But there is a catch...you have to spend all $1,440 every...  Read More

Charlton Heston is one of my favorite movie actors. He really started his road to fame back in the 1950s playing Moses in “The Ten Commandments” and then as Judah Ben Hur, as a contemporary of Jesus C...  Read More

Do you remember the good old days? I’m old enough now to look back and remember with fondness what life was like when I was a kid. I have so many wonderful memories of growing up. The problem with tha...  Read More