A man strides through the wilderness, alone and without peer,
With steady step and focused eye and iron in his tread.
He pays no mind to obstacles that vie to keep him here.
Behind are home and family; his mission lies ahead.
With sudden, violent speed, there springs a bandit from the brush…
Beats the man, and strips him, and forsakes […]
In order to discuss faithfulness with any degree of meaning, we must begin with a definition of the term. The meaning (or meanings!) we ascribe to the word “faithful” will determine the way we talk and think about it, and consequently, the way we model it for our children. We’ll talk about what it means to […]
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. – 2 Corinthians 9:7
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and […]
Without a doubt, the hardest part of life is doing it with other people. The very things that make us human make it difficult for us to be human together, especially with the same people for a length of time. There is a cruelly comical irony in this fact. The hardest part of life is also […]
Bill and Pam Farrel, internationally-known speakers and authors, say it this way: “men are like waffles.” In non-culinary terms, men tend to compartmentalize things…everything in our lives is neatly organized into little squares. We see the different spheres in our lives as separate, and when we plan and process, we focus on one […]
