Author: Deb Herrold

FCFI September 20, 2026 A Greater Investment My dad was a first-generation farmer. It wasn’t that grandpa didn’t want to farm. He simply grew up in a time when wanting to farm and being able to farm were two very different things. The Great Depression of the 1930s was hard on families, and for many […]

Mark 3:3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” The world has gotten so lazy. People no longer go to the store and shop for their own groceries. They go online and submit their grocery list for the store to pull and prepare. Also, people will not get up and […]

James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. When we think about being wise, we do not think about deeds. We think our wisdom would show through our high social standing, by our important job, by our […]

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die I think it was in a Star Trek movie where one of the Klingon warriors dies. The earth ship’s doctor asks the Klingon leader what he wants done with the […]

Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall […]

John 13:14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. Jesus taught His disciples so much. So often it was through parables and then explaining them when they were alone. But sometimes He taught them by actual physical deeds. As a sign of humbleness, Jesus, yes […]

John 4:14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Hot summer days. Sometimes a drink of refreshing water is all you long for! Like the little children above, you want to dive […]

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 […]