Barbara Smith

Knitted Together

Growing up in South Africa, my folks tried to keep things as American in culture as possible. The culture there was so vastly different from our own, not bad, but different, that they wanted to preserve our heritage as much as they could. Not only was the culture different, but there were also many cultures […]

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Why is There No Y?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:09 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreLife does gets messy, and things can get crazy, but God will show up in the good and the bad times with

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The Pied Piper

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:27 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThe message has been preached, the warnings have been given, it is now time to respond. It’s time to pay the piper.

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A Trade Off

We know that the existence and use of currency dates back thousands of years, so far back, that it is a foreign concept for us to think of having to live without it. It is said that the first regulations as to governing money were set in Ancient Babylon. One source states that the Chinese

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Hero to Zero in Sixty Seconds

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:02 — 55.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWe as humans are fickle and very quick to judge others, hold grudges, and forget the wonderful things others have done, and

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Straight as an Arrow

I read an article recently in the Tennessee magazine called, “Arrow Dynamics.” It was the story of how Mike Conkle of College Grove, Tennessee, who works as a farrier, has tried to keep the Indigenous people of America alive, by making arrowheads as their ancestors did originally. The process is called “flintknapping,” which is “the

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The Annulment

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:07 — 43.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreGod has always sought to have a relationship with His creation. When the Israelites rejected Him, we, the Gentiles, were given this

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Ebenezer

Here is a summary from sparksnotes.com, of a famous story by Charles Dickens that everyone will be familiar with: A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire.

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A Place Reserved For You

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:42 — 42.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThere is a place in the Kingdom of God for all of us, and the benefits package is out of this world.

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