Life

To say that life is fickle and can change in a moment would be a huge understatement. In fact, as I sit at my computer writing this Pastor’s Column, I have just learned that a life-long friend, her husband, daughter, granddaughter, and a friend of the family were...

Free Starts

  More years ago now than I care to remember, we had a Labor Day Camp Meeting at the church I was pastoring in West Point, Georgia – Roper Heights Baptist Church. During the Saturday morning session, Rev. Michael Stiggers of Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in...

Old Houses

Recently, Marianne and I purchased the property where I was raised. Our goal is to remodel it and use it for either rental income for our retirement years or maybe live in it ourselves and rent the house where we currently live. Who knows? Anyway, when my father built...

Try Again

  In his book “Nuggets of Gold,” Donald E. Wildmon tells the story of a college professor who, some years ago, had his students come to the chalkboard in the front of the class and work some assigned math equations. After all the students were finished the...