by Stan | Jan 11, 2021 | Training, truth
During the 1960s, I was blessed to be part of family gatherings around the large Victorian dinner table on my grandparents’ dairy farm, documented by one of my cousins with the latest, greatest Polaroid camera. At the time, I did not realize I was being schooled in...
by Stan | Jun 11, 2018 | Confidence in God, Peer pressure, Training
Jazz and Trigger. (Jazz is on the left.) They are inseparable. You only have to observe this duo for a couple of minutes to see Jazz is the leader. Horse owners would identify him as a confident horse. Trigger, on the other hand, is less confident and dependent upon...
by Stan | Mar 7, 2018 | Parenting, Training
A few years ago, someone posed a question to John MacArthur, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in southern California. Practically speaking, how can a person develop self-discipline in his or her life? You may be thinking, practically speaking, how can I get my...
by Stan | Jan 7, 2018 | Training, truth
Galvanize—to provide a protective layer or covering Catechize—to systematically instruct in Christian doctrine orally by means of questions and answers For most of 2017, I was up to my eyeballs in all manner of old hardware for our 1920s farmhouse project. I desired...
by Cheryl | Jul 20, 2016 | Parenting, Training
“How many times have I told you…??” “Didn’t we go over this yesterday??” “I can’t believe I’m having to tell you this again!” Uh-oh. We’re stuck on Step 5 again. The pesky one that tends to get our goat when we least want to deal with it…...
by Stan | Jan 12, 2016 | Godly life, Training
For an upland bird hunter, there’s nothing prettier than the sight of a young bird dog, one that you’ve trained, locked up on point and holding steady. What is he locked on? A nice covey? A single? Or, a rooster pheasant trying to make himself invisible?...
