Author: Deb Herrold

FCFI September 13, 2026 Growing up on the farm in the 1960s and ’70s was a remarkable experience. Life was hard work, but there was something special about those days. We didn’t have all the conveniences of today’s modern farming, so much of what needed to be done required a lot of time, muscle, and […]

Luke 19:39-40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” The Pharisees were the religious leaders and rulers of the Jews. Everything had to focus on them and go exactly the way they wanted it […]

Hebrews 12:5 “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,     and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, Nobody likes to be disciplined or rebuked. It means we did wrong! But, if we are to be better people we need to be corrected when we do wrongful things. How many times have you seen […]

Leviticus 23:23-25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.  You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by […]

John 20:28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God! your personal relationship with God.Lord Jesus, please help us to not reject you as Thomas did and not require the proof of your Lordship to our own physical eyes. Help our hearts to realize you are our God, our King, and our Savior and […]

Proverbs 12:10 The righteous care for the needs of their animals,     but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. The Lord created every living thing and that includes all the animals on the earth. One of the ways others see Jesus in us is in the way we care for His creatures. When an animal is […]

1 Peter 1:16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” What is the first thing people who have known me all my life say after I tell them I have received Jesus into my heart and life? YOU??? No way Jose!! They remember the old me. The me from growing up, the […]

2 Samuel 23:16 So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the Lord. So often I read this verse and thought “What are you doing […]