Today's Disciple

Herb Sand was born on November 10, 1946, and raised on a farm in the wide open plains of northeastern Montana — country that teaches a man early about hard work, simple living, and dependence on God. His roots run deep in that soil. His father homesteaded the land in 1916, and Herb grew up understanding what it means to build something from nothing and trust God with the rest. In 1969 Herb married Linda Crandell, and together they built a life grounded in faith and family. They have been blessed with four children and six grandchildren — a legacy that means more than anything this world has to offer. For decades Herb worked the same land his father homesteaded, farming until 2015 when he retired after a lifetime of honest labor. But farming was never the only work God had called him to. In 1980, while still working the farm, Herb answered a deeper call. He founded and pastored Maranatha Center in Opheim, Montana, shepherding that congregation for 35 years until 2015. For more than three decades he stood in the pulpit, opened the Word of God, and fed a community hungry for truth — all while keeping one hand on the plow. Today Herb and Linda make their home in Green Valley, Arizona. Retired from the farm and the pastorate, he has not retired from the Word. Herb believes God has gifted him with a deep and abiding desire to teach the Bible — and this blog is the expression of that gift in this season of life. What you will find here is not the opinion of an academic or a celebrity preacher. It is the conviction of a man who has walked with God across Montana wheat fields, stood at bedsides, preached through hard winters, raised a family, and come out the other side still standing on the same Rock he started with. The Word of God is true. All of it. And Herb Sand intends to spend whatever time God gives him saying so.