1011 FM 1626 (P.O. Box 460)
Manchaca, TX 78652
(512) 282-7274
Lesson 9: Choose trust not control. The most famous wilderness resident in the day of Jesus was Herod the Great. He came from the wilderness area of Idumea. He built at least nine major palaces from the Mediterranean Sea to the Herodion near Bethlehem, to Jerusalem itself, and then...
Lesson 8: Risk Precedes Miracle. When it came time for the ancient Israelites to end their forty years of wandering in the desert, they came to the River Jordan. To enter the Promised Land they had to cross the river. That may not seem difficult but as desert wanderers they did not...
Lesson 7: Hospitality is the key to survival. One of the highlights of the trips that I took to Israel was a visit to a Bedouin encampment in the wilderness. Bedouins do not move around in Israel much anymore because the government trucks in water to them. Now most of the men have jobs in...
Lesson 6: God gently leads in the wilderness. On the way to Colorado we passed the gravesite of Charles Goodnight, perhaps the most famous Texas rancher of the 19th century and “the father of the Texas panhandle.” He pioneered cattle drives on what would be called the...
Lesson 5: Plant yourself by the stream (Psalm 1:3). Doubtless you have heard the old maxim that the three most important factors in real estate are “location, location, and location.” These are also the three key factors in planting a tree that will flourish in a semi arid...