The Best and the Worst of Times A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859, is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, with a plot centered on the years leading up to the French Revelution. But it’s opening sentence of Chapter One could describe this season of the year – “It was the best of…
I’ve been privileged to serve twenty-nine churches as Interim Pastor-from the ending of one pastor until the beginning of the next pastor. I’ve served people who were sad (at the loss of a beloved pastor). I’ve served people who were mad (at the pastor for leaving or retiring). I’ve even served a few people who were glad (upset…
First it was for a broken and dislocated right shoulder. The second time it was for my hip. The third time it was for the lower back. This time it was for the left shoulder. In case you are still wondering – for what? It was for physical therapy. I should finish the final session soon. In spite of some…
First it was for a broken and dislocated right shoulder. The second time it was for my hip. The third time it was for the lower back. This time it was for the left shoulder. In case you are still wondering – for what? It was for physical therapy. I should finish the final session soon. In spite of some…
A Fort Worth Police Officer was working a traffic accident last week in the early morning hours, when a driver whose alcohol content was extremely high, came up a freeway ramp in the wrong direction and hit the officer, who was pronounced deceased at the hospital a few hours later. There are at least four reasons…
My wife and I recently celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. Many of the friends who celebrated the wedding with us are no longer around. Of course, older family members are gone, two of my five groomsmen are no longer with us, and likewise two of Joanne’s five brides maids have already departed this earth. We’ve been attending…
One of my favorite parts of church as I was growing up, was the Wednesday evening fellowship meal. To me, it wasn’t something separate, it was a part of church life. It was more than a meal. It was a fellowship meal. Unlike other parts of church life, we didn’t have to be quiet, or…
I remember in the 1950s someone complaining about the cheerleaders at our Junior High School (Middle School) wearing “skimpy” uniforms because “too much of their legs were showing.” I am so glad those same people are either no longer alive or too old to have been watching the Opening Ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics…
A series of funerals over the past few weeks, have had me thinking about death. Here are some interesting quotes: “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain “Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be…
I was hosting a video-based training program for the Evangelism Section of the SBC Home Mission Board in the late 1980s and I needed to interview someone who was a local church prayer coordinator. I was introduced to Elaine Helms, who served with the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia. She graciously agreed to the interview. Later…