Increasingly when talking with Christians of other persuasions, I get the disturbing impression that we worship different gods. And there I am not sure whether to...
The folks in Stigler, Oklahoma, posted a monument on the courthouse lawn listing the Ten Commandments, and they are still fighting the legal battles that ensued. But the...
Today was Youth Sunday in our church so one of our college students preached. Lance Huffman is a junior, I think, at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. This is...
Thanksgiving is upon us, so my thoughts naturally turn to thankfulness. Every one of us has so much to make us thankful! It should surely be a daily exercise to...
So here I am serving as a pastor in a small town in Eastern Kentucky, and yet thanks to the Internet, my ministry has some reach to it. I email my sermons to 254...
Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her...
I found the following article very interesting. Though I don't think I agree with this writer completely, I am glad that he argues for some sense in the separation of...
Jesus' was a great communicator. His stories and parables reveal that he was an astute observer of the human situation. He loved to tell about farmers sowing...
It's about time for reality TV to come to Pikeville, and I am glad to be the first to announce it. My friends at McCoy Motorsports will soon be featured on "Metric...
Texas Pastor Electrocuted During BaptismOct 30 7:18 PM US/Eastern WACO, Texas - Associated Press A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday...
An editorial in the October 21 issue of the Louisville Courier-Journal confirmed our fears that folks in other parts of the state are targeting our coal severance funds. ...
If I were Paul Harvey, I would introduce this column by saying, "And now for the REST of the story!" Last week, I recounted my safe and pleasant sailing journey on the...
The morning sky was red, and I remembered the old sailing ditty that says, "Red sky at night; sailor's delight. Red sky in morning; sailors take warning." It was Friday...
If you've watched the "Today" show or MSNBC-TV this week, you know all about Humanity Plaza, a joint effort by NBC Universal, Habitat for Humanity and Warner Music Group to...
I found this very interesting article on Beliefnet.com: Survey: God Didn't Sendthe Hurricanes God didn't cause the hurricanes, and even our prayers couldn't...
I've been thinking about the coal severance tax again. In several meetings I have attended lately it was the general consensus that our coal severance tax funds will...
According to many religious people, the providential question about Hurricane Katrina has been solved. These religious leaders know exactly why it happened, and they...
Clyde Fant was one of my moderate Baptist heroes. I had lost track of him until I found the following lament on the Mainstream Baptist blog. He is now a professor at...
One of my favorite stories takes place back in the days of the telegraph. A group of job applicants waited in a room for their names to be called for the interview. ...
Here is a very interesting observation by George Lakoff on the real cause of the tragedy of Katrina: The cause was political through and through — a matter of values and...
After all these years of marriage, we finally figured out how to have a perfect vacation. My wife and I spent five days on a trip to the Asheville area over the Labor Day...
This was our trip to the high country - the high country around Ashevillle, North Carolina. We took the Labor Day weekend to get our of Dodge (Pikeville) for five days. I...
Cesar Millan is my new hero! This guy is simply amazing. He's the smartest man I have ever seen, at least when it comes to dogs. Cesar Millan is "The Dog...
"If you had $11 million to improve the economy of Pike County, how would you spend it?" That is essentially the question that confronted our state legislators at the last...
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