Recently, I posted my Monday Morning Manna on social media, poured milk on my breakfast cereal and sat down to eat. The phone rang. It was a long-time, great friend. (Who else would call before breakfast?) It seems my Manna post has popped up on his computer just as he and his wife began their morning prayer time…
Last Saturday I personally watched two football games. Early in the day, my great-grandson, Crawford Graham Kennedy played for his 6 to 8 year old team in Weatherford, Texas. Later that same day, my alma mater, Howard Payne University played Simpson College from Iowa – the first college game ever played in the Dallas Cowboys’…
In preparing to teach on Caleb, I came up with a question. Numbers 14:24 says, “My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him. . .” When I read that again, I started looking for a list of characteristics that further defined what “a different spirit” meant. No such list. I really wanted…
I had only been preaching for a few years when my pastor-father invited me to preach for him on a Sunday morning service at the First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas – my largest audience thus far and we were broadcast live on the local radio station. I finished the sermon, thankful I had made…
After Joanne was released from the Heart Hospital last week, I dropped her off at home, then went to the pharmacy to pick up her prescriptions. The Pharmacist questioned the prescriptions, and we called the release nurse who affirmed them to be rare but not impossible. Without going into detail, my wife was to continue…
If I had known back then what I know now, then would have been much easier. One of the highlights of each year back then, was spending a week, sometimes two weeks at Palacios Baptist Encampment on the Texas Gulf Coast. It was there that I first sensed God’s call on my life and responded…
It has been a season of stress at our house – Joanne’s heart issues, combined with falls and broken bones, plus my double cataract surgery and bleeding retina injections. However, we both have friends with more serious issues, so perhaps these quotes on stress will help other When we long for life without difficulties, remind…
I have a private group on Facebook entitled. “Dr. Dan’s Bible Reading Group.” The 365 members read one chapter each day and some post impressions, feelings, applications, and related prayer requests. Most don’t post but only benefit from the postings of others. Last week we read 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 8 captured my attention,…
Last week my wife and I celebrated our sixty-second wedding anniversary. On a dinner date sometime before our wedding, I learned something about my wife-to-be. As I went to pay the bill, she produced a two-for-one coupon. What a great idea. That idea would surface again during our wedding when Martha Fannin sang the prayer and…
My wife and I are alike in a lot of ways. I guess that explains sixty-two years of wedded bliss. But we also have our differences. I bust my you-know-what to be at least five minutes early for everything, whereas Joanne lives with the idea that nothing of significance happens in the first five minutes…