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Learning From Kids?
There they were. Three young people playing basketball. What fun they were having! Laughing, jumping, hot doggin’ it with visions of...
Mar 20, 2022


A Sermon from a Soldier
This letter was printed in the Beltline Beacon, July 10, 2007. It was from a young brother in Christ, a very long way from home. We...
Mar 12, 2022


Going Home
Bro. Tom Holland once told a group of us a personal story about an experience of his on a mission trip in a third world country. An...
Mar 6, 2022


Building With God
The tree trimmers moved through Big M last year. Huntsville Utilities periodically “clears the lines” to minimize power outages by...
Feb 26, 2022


The Power to Do ....?
One day, many years ago, I sat in a very familiar room. It was one of the examination rooms for Pediatric Cardiology, buried deep in the...
Feb 20, 2022


Unguarded Approach
1776, the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Later on that same day, a British armada carrying some 34,000 British...
Feb 12, 2022


Leaving Joppa
I've had the privilege to walk the cobble stone streets of the biblical city, Joppa. As I walked on the streets of that city and looked...
Feb 6, 2022


Looking Up
I had an interesting experience once at the hospital. Having parked on the second floor, I was walking to the elevators. Just as I...
Feb 6, 2022


Life is Not Fair...
How many times in your life have you felt or expressed your frustration that life is not fair? Probably every parent has heard these...
Jan 29, 2022


What My Mother Taught Me
My mother's teachings came in the form of advices mainly from the word of God. But the most powerful teaching and advice came from her...
Jan 22, 2022


In Everything Edify
I was helping a friend get an air compressor working again. After finding and fixing a defective switch it was time to make sure...
Jan 16, 2022


Life is a lot like...
Let me tell you a little story... in the summer of 1979 I was working as the associate minister (youth minister/song leader) for a TN...
Jan 8, 2022


Not For Sale
A well-dressed couple came into a toy shop with their two children in tow. “We want some toys that will keep the children entertained,”...
Jan 1, 2022


Finding and Following the Pattern
My mother came from a family with thirteen children. She had seven brothers-in-law. One of them, my uncle Clayton gave me my first...
Dec 19, 2021


Two More Weeks...
At some point we have all anxiously waited for something good to come. Perhaps a trip or holiday filled us with such anticipation that it...
Dec 12, 2021


"God Cares For All People"
It is strange how we can sometime ascribe to God faults that are found in ourselves, especially our prejudices. There were those Jews who...
Dec 5, 2021


A Valuable Tree
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and drove him home after he had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat...
Nov 28, 2021


Send Someone Else
In the book of Judges, we read about a time when the nation of Israel was overrun with Midianites. They would rob God’s people of their...
Nov 21, 2021


Today
Today, I will live as if it is the most important day I possess, because it is actually the only day I have. Today, I will whine and...
Nov 21, 2021


Are We Truly Thankful?
Many, many years ago a story is told of a good king in Spain known as Alfonso XIX who learned that the boys who served in his court were...
Nov 14, 2021
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