Dr. Fred Craddock tells of growing up during the depression and how often money was not in great supply for his family. The family had to move to town to seek work. Every able family member tried to find some work to earn money. The family kept a cigar box on the kitchen table where all the funds that were earned were kept in order that his mother could pay the rent and buy the necessary food items. However, once in a while his Dad, on a Friday night, would take the money and go to town and buy his wife a box of chocolates or a beautiful rose. She would always "fuss" and tell her husband that they did not have the funds. One day his father shared something that he never forgot. He said to Mrs. Craddock, "When our lives are defined by what goes in and out of the `box,'' we will then be poor…
Secrets Shared for the Journey of Life
Philippians 4:10-20
Philippians 4:10-20
Sermon
by Eric Ritz
by Eric Ritz
Dynamic Preaching, The Ritz Collection, by Eric Ritz