Category: The Pastor’s Piece

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 […]

FCFIAugust 30, 2026 We’ve taken on a big project out at Martintown Community Church. We’re adding a large (for us) addition of a new sanctuary/worship center complete with a fellowship hall, offices, bathrooms, classrooms, and nursery. The new building is being attached to the old building, which was built in 1879. It took a little […]

August 22, 2026 In the Bible in Mark 11:22-23 we have these words from Jesus Himself: “Have faith in God … Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be […]

FCFIAugust 16, 2026 Before I was married, I attended UW Platteville majoring in Agricultural Education. I thought I might become an ag teacher. But partway through, I realized that wasn’t what I wanted to do, so I left school and went to work instead. A short while later I met my wife, and we got […]

FCFIAugust 9, 2026 “Not Everything Makes Sense” 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 cauldron of bats, a […]