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YOU ARE NOT AN ORPHAN!!

Its calving season for most of us and with this season it brings excitement and great expectations as the new calves arrive.  There is nothing more joyful than seeing the new born calves gather in groups and run around, tails in the air with great joy!

With calving season there also comes the once and a while “orphaned bottle calf” situation.  We have all experienced the “orphan” calf.  Maybe a two yr. old heifer doesn’t…

LIVING WITH THE FULL MESSAGE OF GOOD NEWS.

Donn Jibben  4-18-14

We’ve all had those days, a day in which we received some bad news.  The news was probably hard to swallow at the time. You may have most likely stood in disbelief before your emotions, pain and shock set in. Most of us had endured this scene and picture in many areas of our ranching lives.  Life sometimes just doesn’t seem to be fair!

In contrast to this…

 The Baptism in The Holy Spirit

THE THREE BAPTISMS

 Hebrews 6:1-3

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of…

HOPE THROUGH TRIALS

DEVOTIONAL

03-18-2014

Most of us as ranchers and farmers have all gone through them – trials of many kinds.  If you haven’t, get ready cause one or more maybe just around the corner.  Like me, I am sure you probably have seen your share of trials.  As I look back in the rear view mirror I can see them plainly.  Droughts, floods, blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, early frost, low…

                                                   The Downfall of A Nation

                                                         By Donn Jibben

Text: Obadiah 1:1-10

As believers we all know that God is our…

THE VALUE OF YOU!

Donn Jibben

02-20-14

As cattle ranchers and exhibitors we all know the value of good seedstock.  For us, understanding and seeing the value of the DNA and the characteristic traits of good seedstock simply seems to come natural to all of us. It’s like a natural gift from God isn’t it?

But unlike our seedstock, we as human beings have been…

THE WISEMEN’S JOURNEY OF FAITH

Pastor Donn Jibben

Christmas!  What can we say about Christmas?  As believers, Christmas is a pivotal focus of our faith as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.  His birth means “Immanuel, God with us” and it is a time that we truly worship Christ as our Messiah.

Within the Christmas story we read of journey of great faith, a journey of certain men who set out to find the Christ…

THE ATTENTION OF THE UNIVERSE

LUKE 2:1-20

Pastor Donn Jibben

I truly love the spirit of Christmas!  Next to Easter it is by far the most inspiring time of year for me and many other believers as well. Christmas services, family dinners and the giving of gifts all enhance the spirit of Christmas in our hearts and lives.  The ATTENTION of Christmas season truly draws people together in many positive…

SAYING YES TO GOD’S WILL

Pastor Donn Jibben

Believers in the Lord, I have great news for you today!  The great new is this; Saying yes to God’s will in the end is always the best!  I said saying yes to God’s will in the end is always the best!

Jesus Christ, God’s son left the splendor of heaven and the perfect fellowship of the Father and the Holy Spirit to come to earth to seek and save the lost and to give…

I once heard these words spoken by a friend, “if you’re too much of a man to cry than you’re not man enough.” I have come to learn in life that this statement is true.

As I look back in my life, I have to say that I have cried a lot.  I’ve always cried when I pulled and delivered a dead calf. I cried when my foal didn’t make it through delivery alive.  I named him “Lightning” born during an early spring storm. I’ve cried and wiped tears from my eyes during my children’s…

“Until The Conforming Stops”

Pastor Donn Jibben

“When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house” 1 Kings 6:7

Construction sites can be very noisy.  You’ve probably been near one sometime during your life time.  Many different sounds can be experienced during the building process, sounds of excavating, sawing, drilling and…

“GATHERING STRAYS”

There’s a cowboy I know - Who’s a better hand than you and I

His ranch is really large - And He watches it from the Sky

This range boss sees all marks - Knows who needs salt and sacks of cake

His critters are well cared for you see - For this cow boss makes no…

“SEASONS”

“There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven”, Ecclesiastes. 3:1

Solomon shares some great insight into the truth that God truly is sovereign and has plans, purposes and activities for every person that he has created.  Those sovereign plans are not to harm us but are plans of hope and a future, Jer. 29:10-11.

We must realize however that those plans will include different seasons that we…

YOU’RE EXODUS “WORSHIP” STORY

Most of us are all pretty familiar with the Exodus story.  The incredible story includes Moses, Aaron, the Israelite people, Pharaoh, the Egyptian people and the plagues of judgment from God.  It is a powerful story of God’s deliverance of the Israelites from bondage and slavery, from darkness to light, from Egypt unto Himself.

 The Exodus story is also a story of “Worship.”  Worship is a…