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My Favorite Pen
It was the time for gift giving this past December. Our children, their spouses, our grandchildren, Donna, and I were all assembled for the yearly ritual. As you might expect, the grandchildren were especially excited. That just seems to come with the territory when young children are involved. However, this time there was something different about the excitement. To be sure, one of our granddaughters was excited about the gifts she might (and did) receive. She was also excited, though, about the fact that she had found gifts to give to the other family members. We found out later that she did a lot of her “shopping” around the house in which she and…
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Episode 82: How to Actually Enjoy a Busy Summer [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_082.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) Summer is a wonderful time of year. If families are not intentional, however, the summer can pass without doing all those things they want to do. On this podcast, Adam and Leah talk about their busy summer, and share a few simple tips for making sure you enjoy these months and all the activities they contain. Links “Transitions” (Donna Faughn on A Legacy of Faith) “Making Summer Plans” (Arrows in Our Hand podcast) More from A Legacy of Faith To subscribe to A Legacy of Faith by email for free click here. Subscribe to the podcast on…
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Transitions
Cousins’ Camp 2017 has come and gone for another year. We have worshiped together, played games, done crafts, done sidewalk chalk, jumped at Vertical Jump Park, had our picture taken wearing our Cousin’s Camp T-shirts, eaten food (and lots of it), won prizes, put new flowers on the graves of their great-grandparents, fussed a little, cried a little, laughed a lot, had our talent show, sung together, prayed together, and had devotionals presented by Grampy and the three boys. This was our fifth year for this gathering and it seemed like everyone had a good time. Three years ago we began assigning a theme for each year. The first theme was “Discovery” and…
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Free Resources for Pew Packers (or Family Devotionals)
Nearly every Sunday evening, I get the privilege of sitting down front with some of our elementary and preschool children at 9th Avenue and leading Pew Packers. While you just never know what might happen during those 10 minutes, it is a joy to watch these students sing and learn Bible facts. Pew Packers is considered by some to be outdated, but that is only if we treat it as such! Instead, I see it as 10 invaluable minutes each week with these precious children. As such, we are always looking for ways to improve Pew Packers and to make it a helpful time for our students. Today, I am…
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Hurting People are No Different than Fallen Trees
Boom! Whoosh! Clap! Crunch! Crash! These sounds were heard Saturday evening in Cookeville, Tennessee, where I live. Thousands of trees came down all over the county. Many of those trees landed on the tops of houses. I woke up Sunday morning got out early and surveyed the damage. Many roads were still impassable. It looked like bombs had gone off and there was debris everywhere. If you looked right or left you could see the devastation. Power lines and trees were the biggest casualties. It will take our city a while to recover. It was a “hundred-year-old tree pulled up by the roots once in a lifetime” kind of storm.…
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A Small Drawer, but With Huge Implications
Not too long ago, I was asked to speak at the memorial service for a fine Christian lady. During the service, something caught my attention. At one point during the service, I was seated in a location where I had a very clear view of a very small drawer. Because of the location of the chair in which I was seated, I was able to, in effect, look over the shoulder of the body of the lady and see the edge of the bottom half of the lid of the casket. As I did that, I saw something I’ve seen a few times before. For some reason, though, this time it caught my…
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[Quote] G. Campbell Morgan on Backsliding
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Sun and More and Stars Galore!
One of my favorite Bible songs to sing with my children when they were younger was the Days of Creation song. Many of you may recognize today’s title from the verse about Day 4: “Day 4, day, 4: Sun and moon and stars galore!” At my school, we are gearing up for a very special day involving those elements of God’s universe. Quoting from the website GreatAmericanEclipse.com: On August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States will see nature’s most wondrous spectacle — a total eclipse of the Sun. It is a scene of unimaginable beauty; the Moon completely blocks the Sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight, and…
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Some Thoughts on “Writing People Up”
[NOTE: A few weeks ago, I published a version of the following list on Facebook. It received a lot of attention, but I pulled it down due to some people taking over the comments. What follows is a slightly edited version (for grammar, not for content) of that post that I hope will make us all think. –Adam] Over the past year or so, I have seen a lot of posts by a lot of people condemning brothers in Christ by name; including large numbers who are not even at the same congregation. For some time, I have avoided calling names in the pulpit, in our bulletin, etc. I am not…
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Integrity
A wealthy man had a friend who was a good contractor but had been down on his luck. Wanting to do him a favor, the rich man hired his friend with the following stipulations: “Here is $200,000.00. Build me a new home. If you do a good job, I will pay you very well.” Excited, the contractor went to work. A $200,000.00 fund was a bountiful resource. But the more he thought about it, the more he wanted a part of the money for himself. He began to cut corners – cheap lumber, shoddy plumbing, watered-down cement, and so on. He tried to hide the poorly constructed house with a…
