Category: Ford, Mike

Salt

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(Copyright 2002) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) Years ago, in another lifetime it seems, I loved to play softball on the church team. We lived outside Dallas, Texas, at the time, an area known for its summertime heat. Many a spring and summer weekend would find us traveling to yet another double-elimination softball tournament. These […]

Was Jesus a Vegetarian?

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(Copyright 2021) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia)   “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.” (Genesis 9:3) As Alice in Wonderland begins, Alice is lying in the grass on a hot summer day, idly doing nothing, when a white rabbit runs past, wearing a waistcoat and […]

Weeds

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(Copyright 2023) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia)  Before my wife and I had children, we lived in Jackson, Mississippi, where for the first time we encountered kudzu. Having never seen it before, we were, to say the least, amazed by it. For those not familiar with kudzu, it is a groundcover brought to this country […]

Wool and Linen

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(Copyright 2015) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.” —Deuteronomy 22:11 What is the strangest law in the Bible? For many, it is Deuteronomy 22:11, “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.” This directive […]

Is New Year’s Eve a Pagan Holiday?

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(Copyright) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia)  “Learn not the way of the heathen” (Jeremiah 10:2, KJV) We know we are in the Christmas season—that time of year true Christians dread—when we find ourselves humming along with the piped-in music at the store and suddenly realize it is a Christmas tune. The church has published many messages over the […]

Like a Tree

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by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia)  “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:3) The Eighth Day, often called the Last Great Day, immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles, represents the Great […]