Tag: illustration

A Good Story Versus Your Story

I recently read a stirring local book about the murder of the Graves County Sheriff in 1922 by his deputy.  The book entitled “A Courthouse Tragedy” was written by a local lawyer and family relative to some of the key characters.  I enjoyed the book and learned much about Graves County and our city of …

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Two Cool Videos

Over the last couple of weeks I have watched these two videos and just had to share them with you. The first is one that Amanda showed me.  She first saw it in a lecture at Polishing the Pulpit.  We had a good laugh watching it together; not that we could relate :).     In …

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The Outward Shell – Our Cicada hunt Lesson

The kids have been hunting cicada shells this week.  They are not hard to find! I did a little research for this post and found that this exoskeleton of the cicada is from the nymph stage.  They actually live underground, emerge, select a plant, and then molt a final time.  This begins their adult life …

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Losing Faith and Hope

A few years back I read the book Tiger Force which tells the horrible tell of a Vietnam special forces platoon that because of poor leadership, little supervision, and hatred committed numerous war crimes on innocent villagers.  They did horrible acts like killing innocent civilians, murdering babies, and raping women.  This quote from the book …

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Electrical Circuits of Men and Women

We are doing a Marriage Seminar this weekend at the Union Hill Church of Christ near Benton, Kentucky.  We are excited about it.  Please pray for us.  There are spots available if you would like to come.  There is no cost.  It is on Friday night at 7:00 – 9:30 and Saturday morning from 9:30 …

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