Share Smarter Than The Teacher? By Don Doran / last month Smarter Than The Teacher? Good morning! I hope you enjoy your weekend and have a wonderful time worshiping the Lord tomorrow. Isn’t it amazing how wise the brilliant minds of the world seem to be? Yet when it comes to things that really matter they come up short. “I have more understanding than all my […]
Share Open My Eyes By Don Doran / a few months ago Open My Eyes We all have so many different purposes in life. Some want wealth and riches. Others want fame. Still, others just want to make it from one day to the next. I really enjoyed the purpose of life stated by the Psalmist. Ps 119:17-18 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep […]
Share It’s All In How We View The Storm By Don Doran / a few months ago We might all see the same thing but when we tell what we have seen there will be very few times that two stories are the same. We each view an incident from a different perspective. So is it with the storms of life! We each have a different perspective on each storm. It is […]
Share The Lion and the Wildebeest! Who Wins? By Don Doran / 8 months ago Have you ever felt just totally confused? I have! I didn’t know which way to turn or what to do. I call it being “befuddled!” I am not talking about physically not knowing which way to turn, although it could happen that way also. I am really talking about spiritually, mentally and emotionally being confused […]
Share KISS: Keep It Simply Simple By Don Doran / a couple of years ago KISS Good morning! Start your day with a praise to Him. In a sales class many years ago, the instructor told us to KISS! We were all a bit taken back until he explained it meant, Keep It Simply Simple! He went on to show us we sometimes make things a lot more complicated than […]
Share Our Life Preserver By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Our Life Preserver What do we do when we feel overwhelmed by it all? When what we are dealing with has become more than we can deal with, where do we go? Who’s our life preserver? “They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall […]
Share Treat Me Like a Dog! By Don Doran / a couple of years ago I hope you are having a great day today! Do you have a dog? We do and one of the outstanding characteristics of a dog is their desire to please. When we come home from being gone for any length of time Molly is so happy to see us. She will bark a greeting, wag […]
Share You are in Good Company! By Don Doran / 3 years ago Good morning! It is a beautiful day to praise the Lord. Many times we seek instant gratification. We want results now! We are a microwave society and want all of our benefits right here and now. However, again, God does things differently than we do and He does it in His own time. Most of […]
Share A Sure Thing! By Don Doran / 3 years ago Good morning! I hope your week is off to a great start and that you enjoyed your weekend. We are always looking for a “sure thing.” Something that we can know for certain is going to work to our benefit, but sadly enough there are few sure things in life. In fact one man said […]
Share God Preached to Me Through a Block of Wood! By Don Doran / 3 years ago God Preached to Me Through a Block of Wood! In November of 1996, my wife and I took a short vacation to a little town located on the Oregon Coast called Goldbeach. One afternoon we drove around the area. We were playing tourist, visiting shops and sightseeing. During our drive I saw a sign advertising […]
