The time: let’s just say the 90s. The place: Mrs. Rhodes 2nd grade classroom. Mrs. Rhodes had an awesome way of tracking her students’ good behavior in the classroom — by the envelopes on the wall assigned to each student. If you were bad, you got a raincloud. But if you were good, you got …
Growing up, my Dad was constantly studying for his weekly sermons. When I came home from school, while we watched movies or sporting events on TV, when I woke up or went to sleep…he’d usually be in his chair in the living room with his spiral notebooks diligently writing away at the things in his …
Deut 4:29, the Amplified version, says “But if, from there, you will seek (inquire for and require as necessity) the Lord your God, you will find Him if you truly seek Him with all your heart and mind and soul and life.” I love that. There is something so beautiful about the resolution of total …