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In good times and bad, meaningful friendships make life better. It’s 3:00 AM, you stir from sleep to go to the restroom, but when your feet touch the floor, the carpet feels like a mossy creek bed. A quick moment of thought combined with wriggling your toes confirms that you are not dreaming. When you went to bed, you started the dishwasher, and a hose has come loose.
 
At 3:00 in the morning, who can you call? Better put, who can you call for help that won’t hate you for calling. Will you get a sleepy, “What? What happened? I’ll be right over and bring my shop vac.” Or, will you hear the pages of a phone book rustle as they look up a plumber for you to call?
Some of my best relationships were forged working side by side with friends to address a problem or to accomplish a worthy goal. Solomon said, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor…Though one be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” (Eccl. 4:9, 11-12 NIV)
 
Forging friendships with significant tensile strength requires investment. If there is no reciprocity, you have misread the relationship. “Band of Brothers/Sisters” outcome is worth the effort to create and maintain. “Pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.” (Eccl. 4:10 NIV)
 
 

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Posted by Ron Lawler

I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior when I was a teen. A friend had invited me to attend church to help out in a Sunday School attendance drive. At the end of the worship service I asked the Pastor how I could know for sure I would go to Heaven. He had someone show me from the Scriptures how to receive Christ and from that day to this, I have had an assurance of Christ as my Savior and Heaven as my eternal home.

Within a few weeks I sensed a building desire to enter into full time ministry. My church observed me and confirmed the call. Upon graduation from High School, I enrolled in Bible College and I have been in ministry ever since. I was ordained to the ministry by my home church in Texas in 1974. It has been my privilege to be Pastor of Preaching and Teaching at Family Bible since 2005.

Cheryl and I were married in 1973. God has blessed us with two children, Rachel and David, and four grandsons.

Favorite part of ministry? - Researching and discussing questions about the Bible.

Favorite verse? - "Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.  Let nothing move you.  Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:58

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