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Unusual Things For Which To Be Thankful
I thought that I would take the liberty of posting some material from a “guest author” this week. I appreciate brother Hugh Fulford for writing this and for giving me permission to use it here. This was written ten years ago, but, except possibly for the comment about football, I believe it is still very relevant. – Jim Faughn UNUSUAL THINGS FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUL (Hugh Fulford) This week many of us will gather with family and friends and enjoy a bountiful Thanksgiving feast. We will talk and laugh and reminisce and swap stories. We will watch football. But will we actually give thanks beyond the perfunctory “blessing” before we eat? How many of…
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Episode 141: Our 2020 Thankful List [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_141.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) It’s an annual tradition on the podcast. Adam and Leah are joined by their children–Mary Carol and Turner–to share just a few things they are thankful for. We pray this encourages you to be counting your blessings, as well!
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Modesty: An Appeal From One Christian Young Woman to Her Fellow Sisters in Christ
If people in history could have looked to the present time and seen the outfits that some people wear, they would have fainted. For a long time around the world, girls rarely wore skirts, so the fact that we wear pants would be hard for them to believe. Wearing pants is not wrong, but this just shows how much things have changed over the years and centuries. Changing from dresses to skirts to pants is one thing, but as time goes on, it gets harder and harder to find modest things for young Christian ladies to wear. Trust me…I am one! As Christian young ladies, we should strive to help the…
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A Vaccine and Thorny Soil
Over the last couple of weeks, news has been encouraging about a potential vaccine for coronavirus. While, certainly, there are still many hoops that pharmaceutical companies will have to jump through to finish it out and get it distributed, it is the first hopeful news about this virus that we have gotten–consistently–in a long time. So, let’s play along with the hope. After all, we need some encouraging news, don’t we! Let’s just say that the companies are able to get it going, as they claim, by the end of this year, and then the distribution numbers grow in early 2021, on into March and April. Let’s just say that,…
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Every Day is Election Day
I am typing these words in the middle of a hotly contested and very contentious “election season.” Before too much longer millions of people will go to the polls all over our nation and make a choice about their preferences for the people they would like to serve in a variety of national, state, and local political offices. The greatest amount of national interest seems to be on who will win the election for the highest office in our land. That fact does not, in any way, diminish the importance of every election for every office. Some who read this may know that my major in college was government. My understanding…
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Episode 140: “Making” Your Kids Go to Worship [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) Parents often make going to worship and youth activities optional for their children, especially as the children get older. On this podcast, Adam and Leah talk about why parents should not waiver one bit from their children being at worship and youth activities. (And there’s even a connection with Thanksgiving!) Resource We Were Made to Go on Sunday Nights [The Messy Christian; Facebook] CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ADAM & LEAH’S PARENTING SEMINAR. DATES FOR 2021 AVAILABLE!
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At a Loss for Words
Have you ever been at a loss for words? There have been a few times in my life when that has been the case. I know that’s shocking to some of you reading this, because most of the time I have too many words to say! When I was little and living at home, my parents used to tell me that I talked too much…and I probably did. In high school, one of my favorite classes was speech (imagine that) and I went on to major in communication in college and began my career teaching, of all things, basic speech to high school students. Over the course of my life I have…
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The Message Remains the Same
An older gentleman in Canada was working on his property recently when he noticed something stuck in the mud by a lake. He decided to pick it up, since it was obviously just trash, but noticed something about the object. It was a simple green bottle, but there was a sheet of paper inside. After opening the bottle, he read the note, which was written by a then-13-year-old girl who had vacationed on the other side of the lake and was simply putting a “message in a bottle” out there for the fun of it. It was written 32 years ago, but the man read the note and actually found…
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You Won’t Find It On HGTV
There is an automobile dealer in our area that informs people on radio commercials that, if you buy a car or truck from him, you’ll get a warranty “forever.” He then adds, “and that’s a very long time.” Indeed it is! Most of us have heard the word “forever” used when people try to describe a very long time. You know what I’m talking about – “I stood in line forever at Walmart” – or – “It took forever to get to grandma’s house”- or some similar expression. Lately, I’ve been hearing that word used in another sense. As some of you know, I (to put it kindly) tolerate HGTV. I don’t care much…
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Mom’s Advice
Moms are known for giving good advice: Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Iron that shirt before you go on a date! 🙂 As a Mom, I hope some of my advice is useful and as a daughter, I know most (if not all) of my mom’s is! The mother in question here, however, is not just any mother. She is not deity nor, at the time in her life we are examining, is she a saint, though she became one the same way we all can (Ephesians 2:19). She was special, partially for her own personal characteristics, but mostly because of Who her Son is. He is deity (John…
