To Walk With Jesus

Pat Erickson “Long Time Partners”

Buck Brannaman is one of the original “horse whisperers.” For years he was a student of Ray Hunt and also of Tom and Bill Dorrance, all followers of a horse-training movement called. “natural horsemanship.” We know it by its more common name, ‘Horse Whisperer.’

A movie was made of Buck Brannaman, simply entitled “Buck”.  The movie follows Buck from one horse ranch to another where he holds horsemanship and cattle-roping clinics.

Buck said that he has been training horses since he was 12-years-old. He said that he has been bitten, kicked, buckled-off and run over. In the movie, Buck confessed, “I’ve tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to realize that things Continue reading “To Walk With Jesus”

Is Your Favorite Bible a Translation, Version or a Paraphrase & What is the Difference?

According to the “Guinness Book of World Records”, the Bible is still the best-selling book of all times. And it has been translated in more languages and dialects than any book ever written. “Wikipedia” records that “The full Bible has been translated into 670 languages, the New Testament has been translated into 1,521 languages and Bible portions or stories into 1,121 other languages. Thus at least some part of the Bible has been translated into 3,312 languages.”

And have you noticed the great number of translations of the Bible in  modern English on the market today? Since 1900, there have been over 200 + New Translations of the full Bible or  only of the New or Old Testament. The most common and most popular include . . . Continue reading “Is Your Favorite Bible a Translation, Version or a Paraphrase & What is the Difference?”

ENCOURAGEMENT ~ Watchword for the Day

An allegorical story is told of a meeting of the devils of hell. It was a strategy session and the issue was how to defeat Christians in their daily living. Many suggestions were made. Finally, a bright young demon came up with an idea recognized by all to be the key. He suggested slowly planting bits of bad news here and there until discouragement had taken over. That was it. The Continue reading “ENCOURAGEMENT ~ Watchword for the Day”