September 18 Letting Go of Anger

September 18 Letting Go of Anger

My son John played middle school football.  Let me rephrase that.  My son John was on the middle school football team for one season.  He played a total of five plays the entire season. The team did not win a single game.  After we had gotten beat by over thirty...
Letting Go of Hate

Letting Go of Hate

Letting Go of Hate Romans 12: 9-12 Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and lives lost when passengers aboard another plane likely kept it from crashing into another landmark, possibly the Capitol, as it crashed into a...
Tractor and Implements Donated to Ricks Institute

Tractor and Implements Donated to Ricks Institute

After a decade of faithful giving, enough money was saved to buy a Mahindra Max 24 4WD HST tractor and three implements for Ricks Institute, a 700-student Baptist school 16 miles outside Monrovia, Liberia.  The purchase was made through The Bricks for Ricks...
Our Work is About the Stewardship of Our Gifts

Our Work is About the Stewardship of Our Gifts

According to one recent report, one in twenty Americans lost their job in the last five years.  Imagine what the percentages are over a lifetime. Yet most think this will never happen to us.  We don’t think our company will close, downsize, or move jobs overseas.  We...
Letting Go of Depression

Letting Go of Depression

August 28, 2016 Psalm 42 There was a time when depression was as foreign to me as using chopsticks to eat my meals, but then one day it knocked on the door of my house.  As a husband I struggled to understand my role in helping my wife let go of something that had...