Trust


Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 But [...]

Behind the Veil


(Heb 10:19-20, 22) Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh…let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.” kinsey This past duck season my [...]

Pink Holsters & Little Pistols


“Be on alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.”  -  1 Cor. 16.13-14 (emphasis added) Last Christmas a friend told me about an incident that occurred while his family opened presents. He and his wife gave each of their three children nice [...]

Close Doesn’t Count


“Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it.” – Matthew 7:13-14 OHT Founder Joel McDaniel [...]

Not a Burden


“Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.” -Romans 15:1 Over Christmas I headed back to the motherland for a few days of shooting quackers. I drove by farms that when I was a young man I hunted hard. Today unknown owners have posted [...]

Look Grandpa I Cleaned Your Gun


“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”” – 1 Peter 1:14-16 Whenever I see an older Remington [...]

The Farmer and the French Press


“For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude.” – I Timothy 4:4 Last year during one of our duck hunts on Hog Island, a professor from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a farmer from eastern Wake Co. and I were sitting around the pot belly [...]

The Loudness of Silence


“Be still and know that I am God.” -Psalm 46:10 Last week I was sitting in a deer stand overlooking a beautiful field. It was one of those days that seemed perfect. The wind was cool enough to let me know fall had arrived. The sun was setting and casting shades of red, orange and [...]

The Real Reason For Climate Change


Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” – John 14:6 I have read and heard a lot of explanations as to why we are experiencing so-called climate change*, but the one that was shared with me a couple of [...]

Frog Catching and Cotton Mouths


(2 Cor 11:3) But I am afraid…your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. Most people who have grown up in the rural South have experienced the time honored tradition of frog gigging, which is how one obtains the delicacy known to the French as “jambes de grenouille” [...]