It was some time ago that I accepted an invitation to spend several days in Washington, D.C. with the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commissi…
I sat with the doctor three years ago and he got straight to the point. He’d examined the scan and he said, “Mike, you have cancer.”
Sometimes community residents ask for church recommendations on social media. One person posted, “We’re looking for a church with live preachi…
I don’t remember why Harold, a deacon, was leading music that day many years ago. I suppose he was filling in during the holiday season. It wa…
It’s a beautiful song based on a verse in the Psalms about God’s word. We sang it one Sunday in morning worship. (As the late Rush Limbaugh wo…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 20 percent of America is “rural.” Most rural churches have bi-vocational pastors with other full-time emp…
Abigail Adams famously wrote to her husband, John, at the Second Continental Congress in 1776, “Remember the ladies.”
My generation remembers taking trips or experiencing emergencies and looking about for a telephone. Little did we dream one day we’d all have …
We think nothing about people being left-handed, other than crime shows teach us to notice these things since the Boston Strangler and Jack th…
I’ve wanted to revisit my master’s thesis and share the story of an Alabama confederate chaplain and Presbyterian pastor. The name “Petrie” is…