Author Archives: Ron Linam

While in China with Chinese Intelligence I wanted to visit and see the area where Lottie Moon had ministered.  So, they agreed to take me there.  At that time there were no flights to Yantai, the main prefecture city.  There were no fast trains, either.  We had to take a really slow “local” that madeContinue reading “Shandong Province”

If you have ever been involved with Southern Baptists, I am sure you know about Lottie Moon.   She was a missionary to China in the late eighteen hundreds.  Southern Baptists have the largest foreign mission effort of any group in the world.  They raise almost all that money each year at Christmas time.  It isContinue reading “Miss Lottie Moon”

 After the trip to China just described, I worked with Chinese Intelligence for 22 years.  But before you question whether that was “good” or not let me explain.  Shortly after 1980 the Chinese authorities were still determined to know about the United States’ “management system”………just like the authorities in Russia wanted to know.   Since central planning of a huge economyContinue reading “More on China”

In the Summer of 1980 China had just been opened to outsiders. The people there all still wore those grey baggy clothes……everyone the same. If one was privileged to be able to “dress up” it had to be in one of those Mao suits. There was no style, no color as respects clothing. Except forContinue reading “China”

This is an excerpt from my soon to be published book, as are several others in these posts. I have already alluded to Dr. E.V. Hill’s insight into how God works. Remember, Dr. Hill said that God decided to do His work only through people. As Dr. Hill put it: That was the dumbest thingContinue reading “Dr. Edward Teller”

Clarice was one of the most amazing ladies who ever lived in Dallas. Even when she was quite “up in years” she still taught and sponsored a large number of bible classes across the area. It is hard to calculate all the good that she did. She was so much of an influence that sheContinue reading “Clarice Nichols”

My big Santa Gertrudis cattle were what cattlemen call “good rustlers”. When other breeds would be sleeping in the shade on hot days, these would be out there eating and growing as a result. They had another wonderful trait. My friends who have Herefords and particularly Black Angus have all kinds of calving problems. TheContinue reading “Cattle Story”

This is one interesting guy. He surfaced at the very height of the Hippie Movement. Those of you that are old enough to remember 1967 and the years after that know of this extremely strange phenomenon. So many of the young people across the US started moving west, particularly to San Francisco and Los Angeles.Continue reading “Arthur Blessitt”

This is a special excerpt from my soon to be published book. If you would like to see more stories like this, please go to my website and scroll down to the bottom and enter your email in the box on the Texas flag…………. truetexantales.com Ron When I started to Junior High School we movedContinue reading “Big Civet Cat”

This week is the anniversary of the largest land-sea-air battle in world history. On this Good Friday before Easter, I think that it is only fitting for us to remember all those brave Americans who died to preserve our freedom on this anniversary, and what FDR said about our Faith in God. Ron The BattleContinue reading “Largest Land-Sea-Air Battle in World History”