I have a small, hobby sized vegetable garden. It by no means produces a freezer filled with vegetables to last the winter, but it does provide a modest harvest that my wife and I enjoy in late summer and early fall.This year however, my little plantation is stunted....
"For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." (Philippians 2:13 NIV)"I'm in the middle of the road with a flat tire. Can you tell Dad to come and help me?"My daughter was under the gun. She had given her landlord notice that she...
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."(Genesis 1:27 ESV)Last summer, we moved to a different house, and baby Zoe« was born.As a Christian, the nice thing about being a dad again after twenty...
I find myself inundated with voices these days. The newsfeed is 24/7, full of stories of pandemic, civil and racial unrest, political bickering and threats, and the plight of refugees. Even if I turn the radio and TV off, there are the responsibilities of...
"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." (Psalm 23:6 NIV)I have experienced the truth of this verse so many times. So often I find myself wanting to be with my heavenly Father. He is my...
"The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him." (Lamentations 3:25 ESV) "But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me." (Micah 7:7 ESV)This is from the movie Fireproof. It's called,...
I visited a site with my uncle earlier this year at a rocky and mountainous region in Oyo state. We went there to supervise the job and to ensure that it was done to the satisfaction of the client.The operation we went to supervise was to bore a hole deep into the...