Proverbs 3:9&10 says, “Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” On top of a little hill east of Spokane, Washington, lies the Orchard Prairie Cemetery. Like many small cemeteries, it is […]
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Daniel 3:1 says, “Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.” Now that’s a lot of gold! Louis L’Amour wrote a story of a man who discovered a vein of
Luke 24:49 states, “And, behold I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.” Mom had passed away, and Dad did not have much longer to live. I was given the responsibility to oversee their material possessions. Sitting
II Timothy 1:5 says, “When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.” I did not find “mother lode” in the dictionary. It is a mining term that refers to the source of
Psalm 85:10 says, “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” As teenage boys in our youth group, one of our favorite Bible verses was II Corinthians 13:12 (you look it up). Recently, my wife and I attended a beautiful wedding. The bride’s name was Gracie, the groom’s, Justice. These
Genesis 37:19 says, “And they said one to another. Behold, this dreamer cometh.” We all have dreams—sometimes nightmares, sometime pleasant, sometimes very vivid dreams, even reoccurring dreams. I knew of a girl who dreamed she was blowing her nose. She woke up in the morning and found that she had torn a couple of pages
I John 3:14 says, “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.” How can we be sure we love our brother? Is there a fine line between loving and not loving? We know that 32 degrees Fahrenheit is the
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Isaiah 12:3 says, “Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” We live in a day when hand-dug wells are a thing of the past—at least in most countries. Mr. Flannigan, my neighbor, dug a well by hand. It was about 20 feet deep when he asked me to help
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Psalm 85:11 says, “Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.” A very important part of dry-land wheat farming that costs nothing and takes very little time, is when the farmer goes out to the newly seeded field, kneels down in the dirt, and with two fingers carefully brushes
Genesis 22:2 says, “And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” “Wolverton Mountain” was a hit song in 1962. It was co-written
