Category: The Pastor’s Piece

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. […]

FCFIMay 4, 2025Mothers Day (All quotes anonymous unless otherwise noted). Things you will probably never hear mom say: “How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back? Let me smell that shirt. Yeah, it’s good for another week. Go ahead and keep that stray dog, Honey. I’ll be glad to feed and […]

April 27, 2025 A few years ago, while driving, I received a phone call I’d been expecting and waiting for. Since I was in some hilly countryside, I suspected the call might get dropped so I looked for a place to pull over. It just so happened I was driving past a cemetery. So I […]

FCFI April 20, 2025 There’s a guy on the Internet called the Farmall Fanatic. He lives somewhere in Pennsylvania and goes around from farm auction to farm auction and makes videos about his adventures. He always goes to auctions that have Farmall tractors for sale. Farmall’s of all sizes. It’s fun to watch. It just […]