This is a series featuring Guest Writers. We hope the Lord will shower you with blessings through some of the people who have showered us with blessings.
Guest Writer Bio: Judy Hanks
Showers of Blessings (Part 3)
Showers of Blessings (Part 2)
This is a series featuring Guest Writers. We hope the Lord will shower you with blessings through some of the people who have showered us with blessings.
Guest Writer Bio: Jared Proctor
Brother Jared is the pastor at Springhill Baptist Church in Springfield, Missouri. If you would like to hear some of his sermons or get his contact information, click HERE. Continue reading “Showers of Blessings (Part 2)”
New Series Announced
Darryl & I are thrilled to announce a new series of guest authors that will be appearing at the beginning of 2019. We are so excited about this event because it gives us an opportunity to bless each of you through people who have been a blessing to us. The official title of the series will be, “SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS.”
Continue reading “New Series Announced”Packaged in Love
How to Choose a Gift
My mother gave gifts based on what she wanted to do.
She might zero in on a particular grandchild for Christmas and do something really special for them – like build a doll house.
Oh, everyone got gifts, don’t misunderstand. But, my mom thought about the person she was gifting, reflected on their personality, added some of her own, threw it all in a bag, shook it up, tossed it out, and…VOILA! Your present from my mother magically appeared. Continue reading “Packaged in Love”
1 Extra Degree
In my leadership classes and student council, I would share with them a short video about how giving one degree more can make an enormous impact in their lives and the lives of others. It went something like this: Continue reading “1 Extra Degree”
Built Upon Shifting Sands
Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash, (Matthew 7:24-27).
Sculpting in the Storm
In the Hands of a Master
I am a great lover of Renaissance art. As a teacher, this time period was one of my favorites to cover in my upper-level elective class. I focused almost exclusively on 44 pieces I had chosen to weave the tale of this time line through. Continue reading “Sculpting in the Storm”
A Great Physician
Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, (Colossians 3:23).
I am hard pressed to find a better example on earth, during my lifetime, of someone living out this scripture more than my father. Continue reading “A Great Physician”
