Emphasis Preaching Journal

When Don was growing up he had the reputation of always being in trouble. Somehow or other trouble always seemed to find him. It was not unusual for the principal to call his parents or upset neighbors to tell of some mean trick Don played on one of their children. When he was older it was the police who came to speak to his parents. Upon graduation from high school Don left the small town he grew up in and headed out west. To be honest, the neighbors breathed a sigh of relief. Fifteen years later Don returned to his hometown and began attending church.