Tag: Bible reading

Hi All Podcast 7

On July 21, 2026

In 2026, Bible, Bible Verse, Blog, Blog writing, Childhood, Christianity, Church, Sunday School, Writing

The Felt-Board Gospel

Hi All,

My faith in God, in Christ, has been a part of me since childhood.

Our family attended church every Sunday, so I went to the children’s Sunday School classes while my parents were in the church service.

This was the period of “Jesus Loves Me” songs and the ‘Felt-Board Gospel’. Where cutout characters were stuck upon a felt covered board. Very visual, really worked well for some of Jesus’ Parables, and stories like Noah’s Ark.

That was all good when I was quite young, but as I got a little older, I wanted to read the stories of the Bible myself.

Unfortunately, as I told you, this was during the worst period of my ability to read.

Which meant I was struggling to read the Bible.

I got through the ‘creation story,” and how Cain killed Able, and even the Tower of Babel. Because those were stories I already knew from Sunday School and were each relatively short.

Everything after that became heavier and harder to read.

The Nerve You Say

By Kevin

On March 4, 2025

In 2025, Blog, Blog writing, ToastMasters, Toastmasters 4 Writers, Toastmasters Speech

Hi all,

I’ll be telling you about the Toastmasters speech in an upcoming blog once I get a good recording of it to share with you.
What I can tell you now is my nerves really got to me during the and I’m not really certain why.
I think it had to do with having to work with running my PowerPoint presentation on Zoom while maintaining eye contact with the camera while trying not to look at my script.
That’s all an excuse, I stumbled through it but I got it done. Surprisingly, people liked the speech, I’ll tell you about that soon.
I felt like I was back in school when I was scared to speak up at all. I’ve already told you about the one time in High School I gave a speech.
As an adult I was still nervous about doing any public speaking, but things began to change in our adult Sunday School when I began to speech up with my thoughts on what the teacher was saying and the Biblical verses we were studying. I then began finding myself volunteering to teach the class from time to time. My wife and I have taught together a few times as well. I was also being ask to do the Bible reading each week in class.
Then came the next and newest part of my life. An interest in Voice Acting. As a scriptwriter I wanted to know what the actor needed from me.
So, I took a voice acting class. I wasn’t expecting much, and certain I would be nervous stepping up to the mic in front of the entire class for the very first time.
You know what? I had no nerves what so ever and I read the script and performed with joy. I was so surprised by how I felt doing it I knew this was something I would continue to do. I would go on to take further voice acting classes over the next several years, have demo reels produced, and audition for roles.
So why did the nerves swell up during this speech? I really can’t say, but I won’t let them stop me from doing anything anymore.
Hope to have the speech up soon.

Kevin