Dear Faith Family, My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the ...

Dear Faith Family, Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright, (Genesis 25:34). On my way home from the office I risked life and limb to be the hunter, gatherer for my bride. I suited up and entered the jungle otherwise known as Walmart. It was a successful harvest. I arrived home with six...

Dear Faith Family, Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it, (Jeremiah 1:12). Growing up the son of a pastor had its privileges. Like, access to the pickle jar in the refrigerator in the basement of the church building. But there were some drawbacks, for sure. Like if I misbehaved in church, I was in trouble with both ...

Dear Faith Family, Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him, (Ephesians 4:1). It was 35 years ago! Really?! Can't be! It was. There in front of God and His people, she said it! There in a church sanctuary in a quiet little town in southern Arkansas, she said it! What did she say? She said, "I do"! She ...

Dear Faith Family, So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them, (Genesis 1:27). I still remember one of my teenaged sons fresh home from a haircut. He stepped into the half bathroom downstairs in our house. There the reflection in the mirror overwhelmed him. I was just around the corner in the kitchen when I he...

Dear Faith Family, He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (Romans 10:1). Sitting at my desk, I'm looking at a cup that I meant to take home from the office on Monday. Tuesday morning it was still here at the office greeting me with a smile. You forgot! So, yesterday I moved it from the desk to the floor where I would b...

Dear Faith Family, Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved, (Romans 10:1). When I arrived at Faith I inherited the "Rally Monkey". He was a medium sized monkey that kept showing up in odd places. He even traveled incognito with the youth group on a trip to Florida. Here's the thing, wherever the monkey went, he was just there. Tha...

Dear Faith Family, Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving, (Colossians 4:2). Let's flip through the photo album of God's Word. Can I point out three pictures in the album? Picture number one: And the two became one. And then there were four. The four became six. And then there were three! Elimelech and Naomi married. They had two sons, M...

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure, (Philippians 2:13)...

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:5....