The husband once aspired to be a self-sufficient, back-to-the-land pioneer. He bought a windmill, oil lamps, beehives, and a couple of pigs, which we named Lois Lane and Clark Kent.This dirty duo caused me headaches from the day we took them home. We tied them in...
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Matt 7:7-8 NIV)It was a perfect day for Six Flags Darien Lake. The...
Lisa Hanisch is married and the mother of two. She was baptized a Methodist, but the family rarely attended church. “We were taught that there was a God, and He heard our prayers and guided us,” Lisa says, “but there was little formal training.” When she was thirteen,...
“But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” – 2 Timothy 4:5In 1944, a farmer from Sussex, England wrote to the Scripture Gift Mission enclosing a five-shilling ($1.25) offering....
“A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?” – Ecclesiastes 2:24-25In 2002, Marvin Lacy of Lake Wales Florida taught calligraphy in the...
Psalm 147:16a - He sends the snow in all its lovely whiteness. (TLB)When I peered out the window early in the morning, I discovered God had sent us snow in all its lovely whiteness. It would be a beautiful snow-glistening day. A couple of inches of the white frozen...
"So do not fear; for I am with you…" Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)The storm clouds were raging all across our state!That is often a typical summer day in this middle of the country we live in. Most of the afternoon one of the network channels had suspended their regular...