Crabtree Valley Baptist Church

With all the bad publicity of violent encounters between the police and the public these days, Steve Hartman of CBS News recently told the story of a different kind of encounter between the law and the community. It all took place in Kansas City Missouri.

Christmas is associated with gifts. Gifts come in all sizes and shapes and range from inexpensive to very expensive. The giving of gifts can emotionally involve everything from a “spur of the moment, just buy anything” attitude to a carefully thought out expensive and expressive

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said, “For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21) The context in which Jesus spoke is his admonition for believers to “store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust

As we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, let us not forget that it took a national tragedy for Americans to pause and give thanks. We were in the midst of a civil war. The North was pitted against the South and some families were

Some fishing stories are hard to believe but there are pictures to prove this one. What I am about to share may just be a “once in the history of mankind” kind of story. You have no doubt heard stories of fish jumping

We have all heard the saying, “Sticks and stones  can break my bones but words can never hurt me.” The problem with that saying is that it is simply untrue. Sticks and stones can break your bones. That much of the saying is

In case you didn’t catch this story on the internet I thought that it was worth sharing. A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands. Her Mom came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile, my sweetie, could

As human beings we often do not understand the problems of others until we have experienced them ourselves. Back in the 1930’s, American Airways (now American Airlines) had a tremendous problem with lost luggage. Lamotte Cohn, then General Manager, urged his station managers to improve

Are you praying the prayer of Jabez? For the past three Sundays we have given focus to this powerful prayer found in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10.  We have two more Sundays to go. The sermon emphasis is on each one of the four petitions.  Jabez asked

In Brazil, we lived on a fruit farm out in the interior and 400 miles from the Coast. We found many lessons to be learned from the fruit trees that we had in our yard. We had cashew trees, bananas, orange, lemon and coconut