Recently, a young man who had drifted away from the Lord asked for prayer. He said, “Pray that I will get back on track again. I need to get things in order. I need to get out of this rut.”
That is a good prayer to...
Have you ever seen a parade of old cars? Many of the owners of those cars have spent multitudes of hours and dollars ...
As an outdoorsman, I have long enjoyed knowing that God made the beasts of the earth. In the area of Centerville, Iowa, where I grew up, there were never any deer. In fact, we...
The eagle is a creature of great strength and courage, and he lives for many years. His wingspread is six to nine feet, and he can lift himself high into the air. However, when the...
When a baby is adopted into a family, there is often concern in the adoptive parents’ hearts and minds over whether their child will feel badly about being adopted. Will the circumstances cause the child to feel insecure or rejected by his or her own flesh and blood? Will he or she feel different than...
Years ago, when distressed by my choice of words, one of my aunts inserted a piece of soap into my mouth and proceeded to vigorously scrub my offending tongue. Of course, modern thought may say that the soap treatment is not the way to correct a child for bad language; but for me at least, it...
As a child, for several years I lived in a small town that has a river running through it, separating a park from the main part of town. One day, I had been at the park with some of my family and wandered too close to the river’s edge. Being young,...
There is an old expression that says, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” I heard this many times in my youth—if we children were asking for the unreasonable, Mother was quick to remind us about the source of money, and that it was...
A well-landscaped area with trees, flowers, and a trim lawn is pleasing to the eye—it is a portion of God’s beautiful creation. I try to keep my family’s property...
It had been a great season for our football team, but a difficult game was looming on the horizon. The next opponent was our toughest competition...