Mental Musings

Too many Christians hide within the confines of the church. They attend every church function, every church training, every church everything. And then take pride in the fact that they were at church every time the door was open. We are told that we are to be in the world, but not of the world, yet many Christians do everything they can to avoid the world. My challenge for Christians is to get outside of the church and start making an impact on your community for Christ: show His love, be His hands and feet, share His light with a world that is no longer walking toward the darkness, but running headlong into it. We have been called to be salt and light. Salt left inside the cabinet does no good. A light that never enters the darkness is of little use. It is time to put on your spiritual big boy/girl pants (the armor of God) and get out on the battlefield. And stop trying to force non-Christians to act like Christians. You must first help people come to know Christ befo...

I can remember the first garden that I helped my dad plant. I was about 7 or 8 years old. It was a lot of hard work. We didn’t have modern gas-powered tools. We used spades and hoes to brake up the ground. This is a process called harrowing the ground. After that, we cultivated the ground by running a garden rake over it to break up clumps of dirt, remove rocks, weeds, and grass from among the dirt. Our hands  and clothes were smeared with dirt and we had splotches of mud on our face from the mixture of dirt and sweat. After the ground was cultivated, we would use hoes to furrow the ground in long, straight rows. Some of my rows were not very straight, but, hey, I was 7. Then we each took handfuls of seeds, got on our knees and crawled down each row so that we could poke little holes in the mounds created by furrowing the ground, dropped a seed into the hole, and then covered the hole with dirt. After all of the dirty work we watered the garden. Then we stood back ...