Gratitude: Alignment & Fellowship

While astride a palomino, Lew Sterrett demonstrates the use of the bit, one of the smallest forms of horse tack. Bits have various sizes, shapes, sizes, and weights for varying degrees of effectiveness. But what if there is more to horse training than controlling the head and the mouth?

What do you do if you have a colt that only wants to play and eat chocolate? That colt isn’t worth much to you or anyone else! In this demonstration, Lew Sterrett steps patiently through failure after failure with his fearful, ignorant, young trainee.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). When Lew Sterrett first heard these words preached, he was in Chicago as a delegate to the 50th National 4-H Congress.

Watching the taming of a wild animal is something few have ever seen. A horse trainer's excitement is a little different than that of a bucking bronco rider. And the thrill takes on new significance as well as conviction when real life analogies are applied. Watch as Dr.