Author: Deb Herrold

James 3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. So often we do things without understanding the repercussions that may come about because of our actions. Years ago I worked in the warehouse. The man I worked with was in his early twenties. One Monday […]

John 8:23-24 Jesus said, “You people are from here below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don’t belong to this world.  So I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, you will die in your sins if you don’t believe that I am he.” Things have not […]

Matthew 13:52 “Therefore,” He said to them, “every student of Scripture instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who brings out of his storeroom what is new and what is old.” Look at that wall full of tools! There are old tools and new tools. Often, when FCFI is set up to […]

1 Timothy 1:13 In the past I spoke against Christ and persecuted him and did all kinds of things to hurt him. But God showed me mercy, because I did not know what I was doing. I did not believe. We have spoken before about how Paul (when he was Saul, mind you!) persecuted the […]

Isaiah 55:8-9 The Lord says, “My thoughts are not like your thoughts.     Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth,     so are my ways higher than your ways     and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. We often think our thoughts and our ways are the best. In […]

March 1, 2026 Everybody, it seems, likes a good prank story. My prank started out spontaneous and was innocent enough at the beginning, but went south in a hurry. I was a teenager – probably about 16 years old. A friend and I were driving down a country backroad, he was driving, I was in […]

2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Years ago the Pennsylvania Northeast Chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International was witnessing over a Labor […]

Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. How shrewd is a snake? This is the puzzling part about this verse. The innocence of doves is known to most of us. The symbol of a dove is often used for peace. The Spirit […]