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Sowing Seeds: Winter shelter
Our church participated in housing 65 homeless guests for a week. During that week, we provided a place to sleep along with breakfast and dinner. ...
Larry Davies, Author at Farmville
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Sowing Seeds — Tap, Tap, Tap: Worship
Tap-tap, tap-tap-tap, tap-tap-tap-tap: annoying sounds? Maybe, but it could mean much more. Captain Eugene ‘Red’ McDaniel tapped on the walls of his cell in the ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, January 27, 2023 8:49 am
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Larry Davies: Sowing Seeds — Shoveling snow
Years ago, our neighborhood was blasted with eighteen inches of snow. I was stranded at home, but it was nice to relax and enjoy the ...
by Larry Davies, Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:29 pm
Church & Community
Sowing Seeds: Epworth, St. Simons and The Wesley Brothers
Mell and I love to visit “Epworth by the Sea” a retreat center in St. Simons, Georgia; named for the England home of John and ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, January 14, 2023 12:14 am
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Sowing Seeds — 2023, $10 challenge and letters
Over the past few weeks, I challenged our congregation to take $10 and either multiply it and donate it to our Potter’s House mission for ...
by Larry Davies, Sunday, January 8, 2023 8:46 am
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Sowing Seeds — Christmas and tacky lights
For me, Christmas used to start with lights – lots of lights. What can I say? I grew up in Virginia Beach, home of the ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, December 30, 2022 4:32 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Christmas: I’m just a business owner
One person not often seen in any nativity scene is the innkeeper. Often, he is portrayed as the bad guy who makes Mary and Joseph ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:11 pm
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Sowing Seeds — The wise men
The story of the Wise Men by almost any account is strange. Most Bible stories are about the people of Israel. The Wise Men or ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, December 16, 2022 5:26 pm
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Sowing Seeds: Let’s take a look back at Christmas 1989
Do you remember December of 1989? News organizations broadcast live from the Berlin Wall as it came crashing down symbolizing the rapidly imploding collapse of ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:17 am
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Sowing Seeds — Now what? A story of God and money
Christians are not immune to financial problems. One article claimed the percentage of Christians declaring bankruptcy is roughly the same as non-Christians. Yet, in Matthew ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, December 2, 2022 3:43 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Duty, honor, grace and teachers
Anyone in the military, looking at this title: “Duty, Honor, Grace” would be tempted to correct me. The more familiar phrase is “Duty, Honor, Country.” ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, November 26, 2022 8:00 am
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Sowing Seeds — Answering life’s final questions
Recently, I was asked: “Most Christians do not have an appropriate understanding and appreciation for the end times and the return of Christ. How did ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, November 18, 2022 5:39 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Job: When we stumble
For a children’s message, I wanted to illustrate Job from the Bible losing his family and his possessions. I said, “At any time, your calm ...
by Larry Davies, Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:53 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Take risks, make sacrifices
Chip Ingram wrote, “Good to Great in God’s Eyes: Ten Practices Great Christians Have In Common.” Two of those practices stood out for me: Take ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, November 5, 2022 3:53 pm
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Sowing Seeds — An old-fashioned fire engine red water pump
Zig Ziglar once told a story of an old-fashioned, fire-engine red, hand water pump. I have seldom used one but there was a time, if ...
by Larry Davies, Sunday, October 30, 2022 8:00 am
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Sowing Seeds: Now what?
As we would say in the South, “I was raised right!” My family attended church off and on. Being a navy family, we moved frequently ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, October 21, 2022 8:43 am
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Sowing Seeds — European sampler
If you want to see as much of Europe as you can in one trip then read on but if you want to savor the ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, October 15, 2022 6:23 pm
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Sowing Seeds: A story about church bazaars and ministry
Mell and I often traveled to church bazaars. We enjoyed the atmosphere as well as meeting people at various churches I supervised. I also bought ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:54 pm
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Sowing Seeds — The thermostat war
We had a thermostat problem and it was getting out of hand. Actually, we had a thermostat war!! Does this sound drastic? Well, let me ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, September 30, 2022 9:29 am
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Sowing Seeds — Pick up your cross…and fly?
There is a parable about a wild goose shot down by a local hunter. Only wounded in one wing, the goose landed safely in a ...
by Larry Davies, Saturday, September 24, 2022 6:41 am
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All it cost was a simple $7.43
I’ve learned the hard way that helping opportunities are often unplanned and if you are not careful unnoticed. I share this story occasionally to remind ...
by Larry Davies, Sunday, September 11, 2022 10:00 am
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Sowing Seeds — I just wanted some mulch
I was not looking for an opportunity to be a preacher. All I wanted was to purchase some mulch at Wal-Mart and go home but ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, September 2, 2022 9:50 am
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Sowing Seeds — Living at peace in a cat-kicking world
This story was originally told by my friend and mentor Zig Ziglar. I also want to say that no cats were harmed in the writing ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, August 26, 2022 4:11 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Godly influence and shooting stars
A friend recently described tense moments while waiting for his wife’s surgery. He wrote: “It was ten o’clock at night and she was outside looking ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, August 19, 2022 9:08 am
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Sowing Seeds — Surfing for God
You don’t hear much about it anymore but during the 1960’s and early 70’s there was nothing cooler than surfing for someone my age. Surfers ...
by Larry Davies, Sunday, August 14, 2022 10:00 am
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Sowing Seeds — Don’t hesitate: Take a ‘walk across the room’
“What if you knew that by simply crossing the room and saying “hello” to someone, you could change that person forever? Just a few steps ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, August 5, 2022 12:31 pm
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Sowing Seeds — Evangelism? Not Me!
My home church supported a mission ship sailing to poorer countries offering free books, and other supplies. They also sponsored students who volunteered to do ...