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Anachronism
If you are unfamiliar with the title, picture the total look of unbelief your kids or grandkids give you when you try to discuss music,...
Jim Bailey
Feb 152 min read
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Deserted
A few years ago, as a group of brethren were traveling to visit one of the members at home, they stopped at a mountain overlook to get a...
Jim Bailey
Feb 152 min read
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Inheritance
A couple of years ago the History Channel had a series about what people did with an inheritance from their predecessors. Sometimes the...
Jim Bailey
Feb 12 min read
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Worship
Worship is a multifaceted concept so we will study only three of its meanings here: acknowledgement, adoration and action. The birth of...
Jim Bailey
Feb 12 min read
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Forever Young
There is a photo of my grandson when he was about 5 years old in our office that I use as a bookmark for devotionals. He was standing on...
Jim Bailey
Jan 182 min read
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Lite or Total
When my wife and I were just starting our spiritual journey together we lived in a small Kansas town. Our first mentors in the Lord’s...
Jim Bailey
Jan 182 min read
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Simplify
The difficulty foreigners have in learning American English is greatly complicated by our tendency to try to simplify long words or...
Jim Bailey
Jan 22 min read
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Nitpick
According to some of the internet dictionaries I consulted, the origin of this term described the manual removal of nits (eggs of lice)...
Jim Bailey
Dec 25, 20242 min read
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Made In
Recently I discovered by casual curiosity a kitchen towel with a label that said---Made in Brazil. That set me searching for other...
Jim Bailey
Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Authority
My struggle with authority has lasted nearly all my life. Starting with my rebellion against my parents to being disobeyed by my own...
Jim Bailey
Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Roses
Several years ago, while my wife Darlene was taking a Master Gardener course through the County Extension program, she planted rose...
Jim Bailey
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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The Builder's Son
Let’s suppose you have a 50-year-old house, and it is starting to show its age. The roof, the sewer, the plumbing and the electrical all...
Jim Bailey
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Prejudice
Leave it to a country song to go right to the heart of the matter and tell it like it is. “You don’t like me, but you don’t know me”...
Jim Bailey
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Under-Over
Most people at some time during their life feel as if they are underpaid, underestimated, undervalued or underappreciated. This might be...
Jim Bailey
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Donation
The tiny workshop in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains housed many intricately carved wooden figures. They had been created over the...
Jim Bailey
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Yucatan - Part 4
One of the extra benefits of sowing the gospel seed is seeing different cultures close up and personal that one might never have...
Jim Bailey
May 2, 20242 min read
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Yucatan - Part 3
YUCATAN PART 3 One of the first Jimmy Gospelseed opportunities I had in Yucatan occurred at an outdoor cafe. I sat with the three...
Jim Bailey
May 2, 20242 min read
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Yucatan - Part 2
YUCATAN (Part 2) So many of the things I hope to achieve in my quest to become Jimmy Gospelseed are centered in the Mayan city of...
Jim Bailey
May 2, 20242 min read
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Yucatan - Part 1
New Mexico has the slogan, LAND OF ENCHANATMENT, on their vehicle plates. The state of Yucatan Old Mexico deserves a similar slogan. It...
Jim Bailey
May 2, 20242 min read
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Insanity
It seems lately as if I’m having more and more Albert Einstein moments. Not in the growing capacity of my intellect ending in the title...
Jim Bailey
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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