"I warned you when you were prosperous, but you replied, 'Don't bother me.' You have been that way since childhood-you simply will not obey me!" Jeremiah 22:21 NLT Our challenge seemed simple but proved more difficult than we imagined.The final day of school is always...
"She had a sister named Mary. Mary sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said." Luke 10:39 NLTWe vowed we'd remain the best of friends, but distance was fighting against us. We attended church together, worked with the youth together, and ate at each other's...
"Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!" Proverbs 6:6 NLTThough only a block away, it was too far for him to walk.The year my son began high school, we moved to a rented home just across the street. All he had to do was walk...
"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think." Ephesians 3:20 NLTDropout wasn't a word with enough negative connotations to keep me from becoming one. By the midpoint of my...
"God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another." 1 Peter 4:10 NLTThey were all doing the same thing, but their perspectives were different.He lumbered through what appeared to be a construction site. As...
"Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32 NLT Six hundred miles was a long way to move a middle school students.The year was 1970, and I was ten years old. Dad, a freshly ordained...
"You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit." Matthew 7:16 NLT The excitement over my first killed bird quickly turned to disappointment.My cousin lived on my grandfather's farm and introduced me to dove hunting. Of all the...