OUT TO PASTOR: What’s a Whopper got to do with anything

After my heart attack, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage enacted a dietary regimen in accordance with improving my health.The theme of this dietary regimen is vegetables, vegetables, vegetables.Her primary vegetable, much to my disdain, is broccoli.

The miracles of Jesus (part 6)

Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.

PROCLAIMING TRUTH: Living in an age of deception

“We live in a world where trickery and deceit are found in the home, at the workplace, in the church, in government. Everywhere people are deceiving and being deceived.”Are there occasions when we believe deceitful practices are ethical because we feel the ends justify it?

OUT TO PASTOR: I feel sorry for my good-looking friends

The one place in our humble residence I would prefer to avoid, especially in the morning, is my bathroom. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage has her bathroom, and I have mine.I make visiting my bathroom in the morning as quick as possible.

The miracles of Jesus (part 5)

And behold, a leper came and worshipped Him, saying, “Lord if You are willing, You can make me clean.” – Matthew 8:2The lingering question from many of the saints today is, “Does God heal?”Well, does He?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: THIS LIFE STORY BEGINS IN 1973 (KIND OF) – PART 8

By the time I encountered my Grizzley on that bricklaying job the first day, we had been seeing the world turn upside down little by little with the rapid decline of Mama’s health.

OUT TO PASTOR: Dizzy is as dizzy says

Several years ago, I had a heart attack, which surprised my family and friends, who didn’t know I had a heart. I was not sure I had a heart either until that day it attacked me.What my heart had against me to attack me like that I still have not figured out.

The miracles of Jesus (part 4)

“The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, Light has dawned.” From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

PROCLAIMING TRUTH: The Cross – America’s only hope

“If you take a few minutes to read any local or national news, you will find tragic stories. They often surround a person or group of people making poor moral choices that harm themselves and others. Somehow in the process, they convinced themselves that what was wrong, was right.

OUT TO PASTOR: These old bones of mine

I had a frightening experience the other day. I know I must be getting old because things that never frightened me before frighten me. I also see things I never saw before.Going into the bathroom one morning, I looked in the mirror, and my grandfather looked back at me. I almost passed out.