Category: The Pastor’s Piece

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 […]

June 6, 2025 “Words” We walk the dog, herd cattle, lead sheep, and let the cat out. Deer leap, foxes trot, horses canter, and cattle lumber. Lions travel in prides, sheep in flocks, and fish in schools. A group of alligators is called a Congregation. You have a caldron of bats, a sleuth of bears, […]

FCFI June 1, 2025 Sometimes people ask me what I am going to do when I run out of things to write about. Well, I don’t expect that to happen. There are just too many interesting facets of life taking place each and every day. A lifetime would not be long enough to process them […]

FCFI May 25, 2025 The goodness of God. The people who really experience the goodness of God are those who are His children. The others, in choosing to reject God, choose to reject His goodness. But those of us who by grace have come to believe in God through Christ understand that He is good. […]

FCFI May 18, 2025 “Cake and Ice Cream” It’s graduation season. And that is a major milestone for anyone who is getting a diploma of any kind. My very first memory of a graduation was when my little brother, who is three years my junior, graduated from Kindergarten. It was the first Kindergarten class in […]

FCFI May 10, 2025 As I write this, today is our daughter’s birthday. A couple thoughts come to mind as I reminisce about her younger years and those of her brother. When she was just a toddler, I came home one night after a hard day’s work where she greeted me enthusiastically in the garage. […]