A Little Peace of Heaven

by Kevin on September 2, 2010

Please take about 3 minutes out of your busy day and find out how to have a little “peace” of heaven on your ranch today. Please click on the link below to watch the video. Thanks, and may God bless you.

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7 Religious Lessons from True Grit (maybe just six)

September 1, 2010
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I found out the other day that Hollywood is remaking the great western classic True Grit. It comes out on December 25, 2010. I feel like I have received an early Christmas present from Jesus himself. To give you a little taste of the original True Grit, watch this trailer from it’s release in 1969. [...]

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Javelina, the Pitchin’ Prison Pony

August 31, 2010
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When I worked as a field boss at a prison in Fort Stockton, there was a horse that I had been assigned because she bucked every single morning. I wasn’t the best bronc rider out there, but I was the best and youngest rider they had. This horse was a mare named Javelina. We all [...]

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Cowboys make great Christians, but would Christians make good cowboys?

August 30, 2010
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Sometimes the funniest things we come across aren’t really that funny. Many times these things are downright sad. Let’s take a look at one of those things here today. Let’s take a look at what would happen if the entire church institution became cowboys on a ranch. Let’s see how they would handle the day [...]

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Cowgirls In Action – August 28, 2010

August 29, 2010

Today’s Cowgirl in Action comes from an email that I got from Tammie Schmidt. Read this email that I got from her and notice how the most important things you can do for God and those around you don’t have to be complex or complicated. Kevin I honestly think you are right. I think the [...]

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Dealin’ with life in slick-rock country

August 25, 2010

Gathering cattle in slick-rock country can be a little bit nerve racking. For those that don’t know, slick-rock is just a great big piece of flat rock that will come out of the ground just about the spot where you are running your horse wide open and need to stop real fast and turn a [...]

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I’m a cowboy, not a rancher.

August 24, 2010
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I couldn’t wait until the day that I could afford to put cows on the ranch. I remember the first bred heifers that I bought off of my neighbor and I officially became a cattle rancher. But my ranchin’ life didn’t last very long. I had this same conversation with a friend of mine this [...]

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Windmills of Christianity

August 23, 2010
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Hanging in my office is one of my greatest treasures. It is a picture that my Grandmother painted of a windmill. To the right of the windmill is the first “cowboy poetry” that I ever wrote. The poem was a dedication to a great friend of mine named Larry Joyce who passed away last year. [...]

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Letter from God

August 19, 2010

Dear Cowboy, People have tried to figure out through the ages what they could do to make me happy. I laugh at this when they try to “do” things for me. Everything  in this world and beyond was created by me. How silly is it when cowboys try to give me something that is already [...]

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Letter from the Holy Spirit

August 17, 2010

Dear Cowboy, I’d like to introduce myself to you. Now that you have asked for and received Jesus’ boots, I am here to deliver them to you. But I’m not just the delivery driver or anything like that, I am your new saddle pardner. Jesus has finished his work on the cross and has gone [...]

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