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Close Encounters: Part 3
Well here in Mississippi we are just eight days away from the March 15th season opener of our spring turkey season. The opportunity for those priceless close encounters with the king of spring is drawing near and I don’t know...
Close Encounters: Part 2
I have been counting the days till the season opener of Mississippi’s turkey season and it’s only a couple weeks away! Also the weather has been unseasonably warm during these late winter days and with reports of turkeys already gobbling...
Close Encounters: Part 1
As spring approaches I have been thinking constantly about the arrival of turkey season. As much as I love to deer hunt, it does not hold a candle to passion that I have for hunting turkeys. It is just something...
Storms of Life: Part 3
During the past couple of weeks we have looked at the nature and nurture of God to help us deal with the life storms that seem to blow onto our shores to often. According to scripture we learned that God...
Storms of Life: Part 2
We started a lesson last week about the hard times of life that come our way. These storms of life are real and all of us have been through them. For many of us life’s weather forecast seems to always...
Storms of Life
This past deer season was full of storms! I don’t believe that I have ever heard as much thunder, seen as much lightning, or felt as much wind and rain as I did this past December and January. Just this...
Lessons From the Ant
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." Proverbs 6:6* It is amazing the lessons we can learn from animals. Here are a few life lessons that we can learn from the wee little ant. I...
Keeping Christ in the New Year, All Year
Colossians 3:2 - "Set your affections on things above, not things on Earth."I hope you had a good Christmas. It is always a blessing to fellowship with family and friends, many of whom we may only see at this time...
Being a Disciple
Matthew 7:21 - “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”I love this verse. It shows me that being...
Perseverance
Hebrews 12:1-5 – “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set...
Camouflage
Romans 12:2 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."One of the biggest businesses in the...
Where’s Your Treasure?
Matt. 19-21: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves...
A Gift
Romans 5:15: But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus...
Escaping the Pressures of a Crazy World
Hebrews 4:15: For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.Today, temptation seems all around – TV, internet, e-mail, magazine...
Lessons from a Mom and her Disobedient Young Part IV
The Cost of DisobedienceI Peter 3:20“…who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water…”Here we learn from...
Obstacles to Grace
Proverbs 3:7 – “Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.”If God is missing somewhere in your life, you have a problem, and that problem may actually be yourself. You could be...
Lessons from a Mom and her Disobedient Young Part III
The “Coyotes” of DisobedienceActs 20:3, 19, 29“…where he stayed three months. Because the Jews made a plot against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia…I served the Lord with great...
Lessons from a Mom and her Disobedient Young Part II
The Carelessness of Disobedience:Luke 6:47-49“I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the...
Lessons from a Mom and her Disobedient Young Part I
Normally this graceful creature browses through the wooded forest, but not today. This was the first time this two-year-old white-tailed deer doe has given birth. The process lasted about ten minutes. Soon she was busy licking her newly born spotted...
A Life Changing Moment
2 Corinthians 5:17 … if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.In the 1990 movie, “Mr. Destiny,” Jim Belushi played Larry Burrows, a teenager whose entire life was...
Cultivation
Hebrews 6:7 –  7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.We as hunters and land managers are...