I went to a local tackle store a while ago to see a friend of mine and buy some fishing hooks. I left the store and as I drove out of the parking lot I noticed a couple of tourists, a man and a woman, walking bicycles down the road. I pulled out onto the busy highway that was unusually congested, as it was suffering from Thanksgiving tourist traffic, and I went home . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/sudden-impact-2/

Steven Richardson’s early life was admittedly crazy. He started taking drugs in his sophomore year of high school. He continued that lifestyle into and through the military as well as two failed marriages. The next 13 years he spent on a Harley Davidson living for wine, women, and drugs . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/difference-maker-steven-richardson/

I have a friend who has been following Words for the Day for many years. She legally immigrated here from France and became a United States citizen during the time I’ve known her. Though I’ve never met her or even seen a photo of her I can say that she is one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing and is very close to God . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/the-american-dream-still-exists-through-god/

It is amazing to me to see how God uses those who are obedient to Him. I decided to go public with my testimony many years ago in order to give people hope that God could change their lives like He changed mine, provided they would just listen to Him and follow. It was painful to write a book about it, but I did and even though I wrote it several years ago now, rarely does a day go by that someone doesn’t write and thank me for writing it because it gave them hope for their own situation . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/greatest-thrill-in-life/

I received a letter from a young woman who is incarcerated in a Texas prison last week. She’d read my book Miracle on Luckie Street which is part of a reading incentive program for inmates statewide in Texas. She sent me her certificate of accomplishment along with her letter . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/shiny-as-gold-and-silver/

C.S. Lewis once said, “When a young man who has been going to church in a routine way honestly realizes that he does not believe in Christianity and stops going – provided he does it for honesty’s sake and not just to annoy his parents – the spirit of Christ is probably nearer to him then than it ever was before.” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/are-you-a-cino-2/

So Justin Hoke pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church located in Weed California has just lost his job because he posted a sign stating that homosexuality is still a sin . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/blood-currency/

I wrote to a friend long before daylight on Saturday morning and said the following: “Going offshore fishing this morning in pursuit of the beautiful sailfish, (and whatever else attacks our spread.) I look forward to seeing the sunrise, smelling the sea, feeling the breeze, seeing cobalt blue waters, and hearing screaming reels. I achieved all my goals including catching and releasing the big sailfish pictured . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/us-is-not-us-he-is-us/

I’ve studied child rape and am intimately familiar of the horrors of it and have come away from it with a regard for pedophiles that is as close to hatred as anything I’ve ever experienced. So, it was with surprise and disgust that I learned that one of my closest friends, Jack – Murf the Surf – Murphy told me he was helping a young man who had who just got out of prison after being convicted of child molestation. I actually had met that guy at a recent prison ministry event in which I spoke. I was told by folks who go in there week after week that he’d made the decision to follow Christ and they told me his conversion was the real deal and he desperately wanted to turn his life around . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/if-a-blind-person-stepped-on-your-foot/

I was talking to a former star rodeo clown buddy of mine the other day and the subject of fishing came up. He has a successful ministry for school children nowadays and also does some prison ministry in addition to maintaining a job. I invited him to come to my home in Florida and go deep sea fishing with me and then I asked, “You do like fishing, don’t you?” I assumed he did because he lives in the bayou country and the fishing is extraordinary there . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/01/rodeo-clown-moderated/