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Take Back Our Faith - Friday, April 29th 2005 5:51 PM
Jim Wallis of Sojourners gave an impassioned speech in Louisville at an event planned to counter the one by Frist, Dobson and Mohler.  He wrote this about it at the...
Celebration Day - Thursday, April 28th 2005 4:24 PM
I cannot let this day past without publicly shouting, "Hooray!"  I have been struggling for four months under a load of way too many responsibilities.  The biggest one...
Greatest Person - Monday, April 25th 2005 7:38 AM
Father Benny told this story at the Ministerial Association meeting last week: A teacher announced that she would give $2 to the student who correctly named the greatest person...
Pink Snow - Sunday, April 24th 2005 5:15 PM
Today we arrived at church with snow falling. Here it is the 24th of April, and it is snowing! But everyone here says, "Don't plant your garden until the 10th of May." The...
Prison News - Saturday, April 23rd 2005 5:42 PM
I visited my friend in prison again last week.  It is always a very frustrating and fascinating experience. When I arrived at the prison, I went through my check...
Moral Absolutism - Saturday, April 23rd 2005 5:42 AM
Here is a great line from Maureen Dowd's recent column: Moral absolutism is relative, after all. As Bruce Landesman, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah, pointed...
Separation of Church and State - Saturday, April 23rd 2005 5:31 AM
The moderate Baptists had a recent meeting in which they defended the First Amendment.  The leaders were the folks who nurtured me when I was learning about the Baptist...
Wendell Berry - Thursday, April 7th 2005 6:46 PM
I found a link to the following excellent article on the Kentucky Disciples website and really liked it.  The article was published in The Christian Century...
Too Liberal - Wednesday, April 6th 2005 5:31 AM
Alice was on her way to New York with her daughter on a school-sponsored trip during spring break.  She struck up a conversation with a 14-year-old girl on the bus. ...
City Confidential - Friday, April 1st 2005 4:52 PM
What do the following cities have in common, and which would you rather live in? Akron, OH, Pikeville, KY, New Orleans, LA, Houston, TX, Riggins, ID, Panama City, FL, Carlsbad,...
Scared to Die - Tuesday, March 29th 2005 5:12 PM
He is suffering from depression, so we had a long talk about it.  I think the depression is coming from a rather mixed up family life and general lack of direction in...
My Church - Monday, March 28th 2005 11:38 AM
Here's a nice new photo of my church:
A Heaping Helping Hand - Monday, March 28th 2005 11:03 AM
The benevolence organization that our ministerial association sponsors is called "Helping Hands."  I've been very involved in this organization a lot lately, and today I...
House-Husbands - Saturday, March 26th 2005 4:44 PM
My wife and I were watching Jeff Foxworthy on television not long ago when he said, "Women do 99% of the housework in the average home, and men do the other 1%.  But men...
Two Illustrations - Friday, March 25th 2005 4:52 AM
I received an email from Homiletics Preaching Journal that they want to use a couple of my sermon illustrations.  It's always nice that someone else finds something they...
Cal Thomas Quote - Monday, March 21st 2005 5:39 PM
I read this quote in a Cal Thomas column several days ago, and I still can't get over it.  How can any Christian in his right mind say this: There is no biblical...
Is Drug Addiction a Choice? - Saturday, March 19th 2005 6:49 AM
At a recent Unite Pike meeting, a friend expressed concern about an article I had written several weeks ago.  It was the article about the high rate of addiction in our...
Tsunami Theology - Tuesday, March 15th 2005 12:29 PM
December's tsunami continues to create theological difficulties for people.  I have finally transcribed a sermon I preached in January on the subject.  It begins this...
The Bill - Monday, March 14th 2005 3:47 PM
I attended an economic development meeting today where the discussion was about a legal bill to pay.  One of the older members said, "You know, I once knew a man who was...
Kiss a Frog - Saturday, March 12th 2005 8:56 AM
This entry may not be of great interest to those outside Pikeville.  It is my column for the local newspaper for next week.  I have been so busy in the past few weeks...
The Lord's Prayer - Sunday, March 6th 2005 5:27 PM
I was so proud of the Catholics!  Some time ago, Father Benny invited me to lead a short retreat for the folks in his church.  I was excited about the invitation to...
Celebration vs Pike County - Sunday, February 27th 2005 6:33 PM
I always find it interesting to visit my relatives who live in Celebration, Florida.  That's the town that Disney started about ten years ago.  Disney brags that this...
Away - Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 6:35 AM
Well, I had to visit my members! For the past three years, I have spent a week in the dead of winter traveling to Florida to visit my church members. Well, somebody has to do...
Let the Church Roll On - Thursday, February 17th 2005 6:50 PM
Back in the seventies, I served a church which had couple of men who could pick and sing bluegrass with the best.  Our church loved it when these men would entertain at...
Karoke Church - Tuesday, February 15th 2005 5:24 PM
Last night our church sponsored a Family Night on Valentine's Day.  We had a smallish crowd, but the program was a hit.  Someone arranged for a man to bring his...