by Aaron McCollough | Mar 20, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
In his book, “Real-life Discipleship,” author Jim Putnam tells about his high school wrestling coach. His name was John Owen. When it came to coaching wrestling, Coach Owen was a multiple-time coach of the year whose program had produced several multiple-time...
by Aaron McCollough | Mar 12, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
This past weekend I attended a meeting where I met one of the nicest young men I have met in a long time. Maurice and I come from different generations and different cultures. Yet, it didn’t take us long to discover we had a common point of interest. We both...
by Aaron McCollough | Mar 5, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
In our Christian experience we do everything within our power to follow God’s leading as closely as possible. In his book, The Red Sea Rules, which is the foundation for this column today, Robert J. Morgan quoted A.T. Pierson saying, “To go as I am led, to go...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 26, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
Today, I want to start this Pastoral Nugget with an excerpt from the book: “All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” – by Robert Fulgham. “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 19, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
I was having lunch the other day with Danny Watters, one of our Georgia Baptist Convention State Missionaries. Danny mentioned having breakfast with an old college professor of his. He said that as they were waxing eloquent about some political problem that neither of...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 12, 2015 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
In his book, Second Chances, Max Lucado tells the following story of a Brazilian woman Maria and her daughter, Christina. Maria’s husband died when Christina was an infant. The young mother, stubbornly refusing opportunities to remarry, got a job and set out to...
