Tag Archives: Devotions

We are excited about our new ebook, Trampled Grass.  Scroll down to learn how you can have a copy. A word from Curt Translation. Of all my African regrets, not becoming fluent in any language has been the largest. It has humbled me like nothing else. However, my stumbling around with my tongue has created lots of good stories . …

Heartbroken    This week we our blogging will consist of putting faces on the chaos going on in South Sudan. You’ve heard the stats: at least 1000 dead . . . 150,000 displaced.  Numbers don’t move us like faces and stories. This week you’ll be meeting Simon and Rachel, Pastor John, Two Teachers, a family separated at the Nile and …

Ramblings and Musings from Uganda   Going in circles . . .   There are lots of challenges to driving in Uganda.  Driving on the left side of the road.  Steering wheel on left side of car.  Weaving in and out of thousands of motorcycles.  And then there are the roundabouts.  Where we Americans would place a four-way intersections, Africa …

Jenga.  It’s one of my favorite games.  It involves removing wooden individual blocks without crashing the stacked blocks. My grandsons love to play it. Jenga comes from Swahili and means  “building together.”                                                                                                                                           …

On TheJourney . . . walking the red dirt roads of East Africa updated on Sunday, 17 Feb2013 February 2013 Have you read our latest newsletter? You can also subscribe to the newsletter. As always, we love to hear from you.  Email us at creekbank.stories@gmail.com   Click on image for larger view Praying for us this week: Our KiSwahili language …

One Life By Frank J. Nihart Anyone over the age of 40 knows that the older you are the faster time seems to go by.  I know of a gifted athlete who played football for Tulane University.  He was a starting halfback the two years he was there before joining the Army during the Korean Conflict.  While in the Army …

Below are two devotions.  I plan to enter one of them in an upcoming writing contest.  I like them both.  I’d like the input of readers like you.  Honestly, let me know which one tugs at your heart most. As always, I’m open to any suggestions you have. Enjoy! A Man of His Word It is better not to vow …

Lessons from a Gravedigger Today’s Proverb:  Proverbs 18:9  “The one who is truly lazy in his work is brother to a vandal.” It was the first trip to the cemetery for my two grandsons, Noah and Jude. As we got out of my truck, I knew it wouldn’t be their last.  Life is full of trips to the cemetery. Ages …

I’m just returning from a speaking engagement in southern Arizona.  It was simply great being with pastors and wives of Catalina Baptist Association. Today’s quote:  “The shortest distance between truth and a human heart is a story.”   -Anthony deMello Sharp hooks and tough-mouthed catfish… I never knew Reas Weeks . . . but I’ll always remember the following story about …