Of the tricks of Satan at all.For with our God-given power, we can be braveAnd remain STANDING TALL!Do you remember how David defeated GoliathWith five stones and a sling?He stood confident, defying that uncircumcised giantIn the Name of God our KingAnd remained...
Our cat, Sammy, had to go to the groomer's a couple of weeks ago. We put it off as long as we could. He was starting to look like a rug-with fringe. But Sammy absolutely hates to go to the groomers'. They don't particularly love to see him coming either. After...
Brent walked past the familiar park where he’d often visit and sit in close proximity to five or six old men who had erected an old foldout card table to play chess. It had become an ever-increasing fascination to watch the old men play for hours on end. Although it...
I look like a monster. During a routine root canal last week, the dentist accidentally tore a blood vessel in my face, and the result is that the left side of my face is black and purple and swollen from eyebrow to throat.While painful, the worst part of this mishap...
Fear. Despair. White knuckle praying. A raging sea, in a leaky boat. Lightning bouncing off the mast. Wondering if this time, I really am going to die. Often, in desperation, I whisper the sailor’s prayer,“Lord, the sea is so big, and my ship is so small. Have...
As I lay in the darkness of a hospital room, flat on my back in a body cast, I began softly singing hymns.A nurse popped through the doorway and commented in amazement, "You can sing after being put in a cast with a broken back?"I grinned and answered, "It's something...
He was a drinker. A dog kicker. A wife beater. The meanest man I’d ever known. His wife was a Christian. A kind and gentle woman. A forgiving woman. I never understood why she never left him. He ridiculed her faith every chance he got. They lived in one of the houses...