FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Raccoon John Smith

  The best lessons come from the most unusual sources, and they come when you least expect them. Usually, they don’t show up politely in a limousine. More likely, they’ll crash land in your front yard unannounced. But who ever heard of learning a valuable lesson from a log?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Preacher Miller faces death in the Kentucky hills (part 2)

  Welcome to the “Front-Porch.” With Father’s Day just in our rearview mirrors, we’ve continued thinking about some of our great fathers and grandfathers.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Preacher Miller faces death in the Kentucky hills (part 1)

  Welcome to the “Front-Porch.” I’m glad that, for us, Fathers’ Day doesn’t just cover one day. That allows us another story or two. It’s true that sometimes people may not particularly like what we preach. But I’ve never received a death threat. But I know a man who did.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: He was there, if only for a time

  Welcome to the “Front-Porch.” With Father’s Day upon us, I cannot help but go back to some special times this Father’s Day 2026, although I suppose it’s no different from all the years since 1967. I am thinking of a gentleman who, when I was just a little boy, was almost always there.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: ‘I’ll stick with Solomon’

  Welcome to the “Front-Porch.” With Father’s Day on the horizon, I was thinking recently about my father-in-law Bill Dickinson.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Psalm 119 – more than words on a page

  Welcome to the “Front-Porch.” Coming again to Psalm 119, there is splendor and wonder in this piece of spiritual literature that comprises 176 verses.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Open Letter – My “Hachie” H.S. Seniors

  This past Friday night, I watched as 150 of my students walked across that stage, robed proudly in green and with smiles stretching halfway across the football field.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 94

 Driving home from Corrina’s that night, I wished I could have heard Mama’s speech; but I knew that it had to be between two godly women – one just entering womanhood and the other looking back for one of the last times in her life.But Mama had to do more than look back.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 91

 The following Friday evening, Corrina and I visited Mama as we had planned.Corrina was a mystery, that I was learning. In that way, she was like Doocy himself.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 90

 With the congregation gathered around, Doocy was prepared to go on.