FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Men can come off as awfully “cheap” on Valentine’s Day

Welcome to the “front porch.” After almost a quarter of a century of sending words to the newspaper, the following Valentines' piece is one I’ll never forget. Read on ...

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: And this is... the... rest of the story

Welcome to the “front porch.” Have you ever wondered what the famed Georgian native son Lewis Grizzard would have to say about the state of the union today, or what kind of assessment one of the country’s greatest voices, Paul Harvey would offer?

OUT TO PASTOR: A divided house makes a happy home

Never has our world been more divided than today. Politics, religion, sports and on and on I could go. For the most part, so many people think being divided is a negative thing. And for many people it is.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: A flame still burns on Washington Hill

Welcome to the “front porch.” I love looking back into the archives and seeing life as it was back when. The column you are about to read comes from 2003 but was revisited a decade later, as you’ll see.

OUT TO PASTOR: Oh, the daze of my life

When I was young, my mother was quite a fan of a soap opera called “The Days of Our Lives.” I remember the title but I never would watch something like that. However, my mother enjoyed it and so what’s there to complain about.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Mem’ries of a song leader, a folded paper, and a friend

Welcome to the “front porch.” Every time I come to the modest church building in Lexington, Oklahoma, I find a newspaper from the Purcell Register in my pew. That newspaper has miraculously appeared every week for quite a few years. The paper’s appearance actually isn’t miraculous.

OUT TO PASTOR: Coffee without coffee... just ain’t coffee

I must soberly confess that I have throughout my life given in to habits and rituals. I don’t like saying that, but it is the truth. At this point, I don’t know the difference between a habit and a ritual.

Prayer, COVID-19 and Biden

Harken to these words, take them seriously; understand it matters not what we think, God is greater than our thoughts. What people have yet to understand, the church, the world and religious people cannot pray COVID-19 away or its different strains. COVID-19 can only be repented away.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Oh, no, God is not just the God of the mountain!

Welcome to the “front porch.” As we prepare to write each week, we think of what is most fitting for this particular week – that’s the way it is fifty-two weeks of the year. Clearly, taking the pen in hand this week, we realize we are in some crazy times, no doubt about that.

OUT TO PASTOR: Riding the hallelujah train to the end

We had a long, hard week with problems and difficulties that took time to solve if they even were solved. It is quite interesting to me that when I solve one problem, two other problems appear. I think they’re all waiting in line.