Gospel of Matthew

Bad Renters Beware

March 27, 2017 | David Briscoe | Filed Under: Adults, Blog

by David Briscoe A few years ago I inherited about fifty acres that had been part of my parents’ family farm. The property featured a nice mix of open meadows and wooded areas. As a child and teenager, I had roamed that land almost daily—tending my dad’s cows, hunting, fishing, and just exploring nature with…

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Mountaintop Experience

March 6, 2017 | David Briscoe | Filed Under: Adults, Blog

by David Briscoe What is your ultimate mountaintop experience? Thousands of people would say the answer is to stand on the “roof of the world,” the summit of Mount Everest. Since the first reported successful climb of that 29,000-foot peak in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, more than four thousand different individuals have…

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