DisciplesWorld sent a reporter to our sailing camp last month, and now they have a feature article on our camp! It starts this way: Wind, water teach spiritual lessons...
Sailing Camp is just too much fun! I can't quite let go of it yet. I have been involved in editing video from camp for the past few weeks, and have finally...
I remember watching a comedy produced by the Farrelly brothers in 2001. It was about a character who was a typical twenty-something and a nerdy kind of guy. He was...
One of my big frustrations about the weather in Eastern Kentucky has to do with the multiple, late winters named after flowers. Just when the first breath of warm,...
My friends at McCoy Motorsports seem to be gathering a lot of national attention lately, and with good cause. Their custom motorcycles are just amazing. On...
Kenneth Graham wrote the famous line, "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats." If that is really true,...
Sandy Valley Habitat for Humanity is making preparations now for the "house build" planned for September 16-23. In a moment of inspiration well over a year ago, Blake...
Prayer is a topic that is or should be in the minds of folks from many religious traditions. It is one of the key spiritual disciplines that lead to a deeper faith and a...
Christianity Today has a piece on Garrison Kiellor's new movie coming out June 9 and an interview with him. He is asked if he goes to church or if that was prying to...
Interesting news story today that speaks for itself: KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he...
Online banking changed my life! And it will change yours too. Do you detest standing in line at the bank? Then don't do it. Do you hate planning your...
The Hatfield-McCoy Festival takes place this weekend, mostly in West Virginia, so I thought I would offer an overview of the recently-released "Hatfield-McCoy Historic Feud...
In the 1984 movie entitled The Neverending Story, the main character is a lonely, dreamy kid who misses his dead mother. While hiding out in a store to avoid some bullies from...
Bill W., one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, often said that neglecting Step Eleven was the greatest mistake an alcoholic could make. He went on to say: "The other...
The battle is already underway. The flowers are just beginning to bloom, but already they are under attack. Hordes of grass armies and weed invaders have begun...
Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas, crossed southern Florida and slammed into the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Some say this was the largest hurricane of its...
While at Bethany Seminary for the Oren Scott Lectures, I heard Dr. Wilma Bailey give one of the most creative sermons I have ever heard. Later I found it on the...
"Karma. You got to love it." That's a quote from my newest favorite television show, "My Name is Earl" on NBC. Earl readily confesses that he has done too many...
The Baptist Standard reports an excellent speech by Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty. This is good stuff. It begins: Americans are...
I once read in an article that said the famous author Alex Haley, author of Roots, has a picture in his office, which shows a turtle sitting atop a fence post. What a...
I want to deal with one more topic before I get back to the Twelve Steps, and that is the National Day of Prayer coming up on Thursday, May 4. Events are planned in...
Don Byrd of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty made this excellent post on Kentucky and the Ten Commandments: The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that...
I find it a bit strange that the celebration of Christmas generates far more enthusiasm and participation than does the celebration of Easter. It just seems to me that...
I knew when I began a twelve-week series of articles that I would be frustrated by new topics that would arise during that twelve weeks. Sure enough, Easter is upon...
Let me begin by reviewing the first five steps to recovery: 1) We admitted we were powerless over the effects of our separation from God and that our lives had become...
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