Last night I attended our small group meeting and the group leader who happens to also be the founding pastor of our church read the passage in Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 2 – “Honor your father and mother . . . “ Some discussion proceeded and we were getting ready to move on to the verses dealing with the armor of God and I asked a question . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/worthy-of-a-gladiator/

I was by myself driving home from my plantation yesterday and for whatever reason I began thinking about the subject of suicide. My only sibling, my brother Jim, my grandfather, and two of my uncles all committed suicide. I was suicidal for most of my early life and it was not until I became a Christ follower that those tendencies diminished . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/hope-booster-of-all-hope-boosters/

So I came up to Honey Lake yesterday to check on a prescribed controlled burn for my property. In Florida we have to burn the underbrush every year or two to keep it from getting overgrown and becoming a fire hazard not to mention making it useless for hunting or anything else . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/burning-the-undesirable/

So Bernie Sanders and an array of other socialist thinking candidates are leading the pack of kooks running for the White House. I assume censorship will get worse If they win . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/bad-grass-2/

If anyone reads the book of Exodus, they are familiar with plagues sent by God to convince pharaoh to allow the Jewish people to leave Egypt. Pharaoh was not about to allow all those slaves their freedom and when he refused God’s emissary Moses, the plagues began. Could God be warning the world today that sin will not indefinitely be tolerated? Check out some recent activity . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/let-my-people-go/

A reader wrote recently that he had a deep fear of dying in spite of the fact that he’d accepted Christ as His Savior. I won’t bore you with the details, but I’ve had numerous near-death occasions in my life, and can unequivocally say that I do not fear death in the least, even when confronted with it. So, what is the difference between us? Since we are both followers of Christ, intellectually we should understand what happens to us when we take our last breath? . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/are-you-afraid-of-your-shadow/

My column yesterday stimulated some interesting conversation. One guy sent the following hilarious video concerning his options regarding spending the rest of his life with his wife . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/cremation-versus-burial-for-christians/

I have a friend that is anxious about knowing whether or not he will know his wife in heaven, He does not like the fact that the Bible says that we will not marry in heaven. (Jesus was posed this question when asked about a woman who hypothetically got married but her many husbands kept dying off until she had married and remarried several times. They wanted to know whose wife she would be in heaven and Jesus said there is no marriage in heaven, and we would be like the angels. Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. (Sorry Mormons but the Bible negates your belief system. . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/egad-eternity-with-your-spouse/

I lived on beautiful Honey Lake for many years. The 80-acre lake is spring fed and thus is always pure and clear. There are several other ponds on the property that are not spring fed and when it doesn’t rain for a long period of time these ponds get stagnant and filled with algae. My favorite fishing pond had a 15 inch well adjacent to it and the pure water pumped from the well into the pond was used to refresh it during those tough dry spells. Likewise, I pumped water into a few of the other ponds on the property during long droughts to keep them fresh and vibrant . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/the-stagnant-pond/

I noticed after the impeachment ruling that Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer thanked all of the pages, the capitol police, the Chief Justice and so on for their contributions during the impeachment trial . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2020/02/break-the-teeth-of-the-wicked/