Down The Toilet…

Hope everyone is doing well. I quit the blogging back in September to have more time for church and family. Since then the family is great. Rebecca is a very busy mother of two boys. Cason is growing bigger and smarter everyday. Baby Luke is a neat kid who is fitting into the Howle home [...]

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Jeaolousy…

I am a jealous person sometimes. I was told by a seminary professor that my voice was” harsh, adversarial, and disengaging,” and “that I would never be successful in ministry” unless I learn to speak well. So, having a voice that sounds roughly like a 70 year old coach smoking football coach who yells too [...]

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Money, Money, Money…

But godliness with contentment is a great gain.  (7)  For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out.  (8)  But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.  (9)  But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, [...]

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Stomach Virus: Sex and Money?

I hate a somach virus. As a minister I visit and pray for the sick, but buddy, when you get a stomach virus, I am praying for you at home. I mean I will flat run to get away from one. Our family was hit with one a few months back.  We managed t0 pass [...]

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Take A Break

I read this great quote that I want to pass along about rest and confidence in God. Here is the Son of God, who in less than three years achieved far more than kings and generals had ever achieved in a thousand years, taking time out. Why? Well, He knew His needs and limitations – [...]

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My Name, The Palm Of His Hands

I am having a really hard time getting going this morning. I wanted to blog on our speech, but my head not functioning to well. But one verse has been ringing through my mind. “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet [...]

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Dad, will you lead the family in worship tonight?

Family Worship should be led by fathers and have its goal of establishing God-centered homes. Through leading family worship you promote worship in all of life in all your family does. You prepare them public worship and service to God.Will be the man yourfamily needs and say with bold faith in Christ “But as for [...]

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Daily Family Worship

“They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.”Matthew Henry Rebecca, Cason, and I every night before bed pull out a Baptist Hymnal. We sing a few songs. Cason loves “Holy, Holy, Holy.” He signs [...]

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Your Family Should Not Be First…

I love my family. I try to maximize time spent with Cason, Rebecca, and forthcoming Luke Oliver. This is not always easy. I know the older kids become and the more activities they do, the harder it gets to spend good quality family time. One of the statements I hear a lot is “I always [...]

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Slip Sliding Away…

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of [...]

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