Category: The Pastor’s Piece

FCFI November 8, 2026 “Camping Is Biblical” There is a great recurring theme throughout Scripture where God commands His people to remember His faithfulness. We are studying the Book of Nehemiah in our ongoing Sunday morning sermon series and this week it’s about how God instructed the Children of Israel to build little shacks on […]

Village November 1, 2026 Sometimes I go back into the archives to see what I’ve written about in the past. I’ve been writing a newspaper column since 1994 so a lot has passed over these fingertips over the years. What I have found in my archive review, is that this column is a lot like […]

FCFI October 18, 2026 Genesis 8:22 reads: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” This verse was on my mind when I woke up this morning, I think because of the nice weather we’ve had around here lately. It’s been […]

FCFI October 4, 2026 Farm kids called it a hay mow. Our non-farm cousins called it a hayloft. But we never called it that. Hayloft sounded way too soft and easy. A hay mow was where you stacked hay, sweated through your clothes, got covered in cob webs and even had to fight off spiders, […]

September 27, 2026 By the time I transferred to Bible college, my wife and I were already married. Not long after we arrived, we met a couple named Jim and Frieda, and we immediately hit it off. Because we were married, we lived off campus, and we did many of the things married couples do […]

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 […]

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 […]

FCFI September 5, 2026 Times have changed. In an area of approximately one square mile surrounding my house, according to my calculations, there were once about 18 small family farms. Today, there is only one left. The landscape and character of the area have changed dramatically over the past 30 years. And so has our […]