Category: The Pastor’s Piece

FCFIAugust 3, 2025 The following column is part of a message by Ray Pritchard at Keep Believing Ministries, (Keepbeliving.com), from July 18, 2012. “We Cannot Fail”By Ray Pritchard Lately I’ve been reading a fine book by Rodney Stark called, The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion. The opening paragraph […]

FCFI July 27, 2025 When I was a kid, one of the places we lived was at the end of a mile-long dead-end driveway. Not many people came down that lane – just the milk man, the Schwan’s Ice Cream guy, or relatives coming to visit. We were farm kids who knew how to work, […]

FCFIJuly 20, 2025 “Smoking And Drinking” Recently, I had a conversation with an elderly gentleman. He was a kindly old man who sat at our kitchen table and shared with my wife and I the history of his life. He grew up in New England and moved to this area when he was 18 years […]

FCFIJuly 13, 2025 When I was kid, my mom had a manual typewriter which she would use to type letters and documents for dad. I was always amazed watching that typewriter work. Mom could type without looking at the keys and the arms inside the machine would pop up and leave the letters on the […]

FCFI July 6, 2025 When I first started out in the ministry, somebody told me you didn’t need to be born again to enter God’s kingdom. But I said, “No. You have to be born again because Jesus said, ‘Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God.’” So he wanted to […]

FCFIJune 29, 2025 “Let’s Go Camping” Camping is always an adventure no matter what kind of luxury you carry with you from home. When I was kid, my brothers and I would camp out by our creek in the pasture. Sometimes we’d sleep under the stars and sometimes we’d set up a makeshift tent using […]

FCFIJune 22, 2025 Vacation Bible School is in my DNA. Early every summer as a kid growing up, my parents would drop me and my brothers off at church for Bible school. I remember we sang a lot. One song in particular sticks out in my mind. It was titled “He Keeps Me Singing.” I […]

FCFI June 15, 2025 Last weekend my wife and I traveled to the great state of Montana and had a great time celebrating our nephew’s high school graduation. They call it Big Sky Country for a reason. The scenery is a vast view of sky and mountains. It looks big because it is big. The […]