A Silvery Morning I hope you all are savoring summer. What a beautiful gift from God it is. On a recent morning walk I noticed a silvery quality on the cool morning air. As I walked along the edge of the woods a magnetic fragrance slowed my pace and at the same time the clear, […]
Manliness
What Makes a Man a Man? • Achieving Eagle Scout? • Heavy-lifting? • Being a stand-out, first-string athlete? • Being tough and never showing weakness? • Sexual conquests? • Able to hold your liquor? • Impressive facial hair? • Being able to wire, plumb, mud dry-wall and rebuild an engine? Challenges Over the last few […]
Wesley’s New Recording
This is original music by our son, Wesley. Pretty creative and convicting stuff. Let me know what you think. You can listen here
Perfect Peaches
On State Route 13 near the little village of St. Louisville, Ohio, just where the North Fork Licking River snakes under the highway south of the village, an old gas station stood between the railroad and the highway. It hadn’t been a working gas station for many years. On the mid-summer afternoon twenty years ago […]
Things I Love About Being a Pastor
It was beautiful last night. There was a light breeze. The sky was clear and the sun was setting. Hazard took me on a long walk and I got to thinking about being a pastor. On August 11 I will have been a pastor 34 years. I pastored my first church when I was seventeen. […]
Johnny Cash and June Carter-Cash
This sketch of Johnny Cash is by Brian Falk Music Appreciation 101 How do you feel about the music of Johnny Cash? I never got it. It always puzzled me that he became so popular and successful without always singing on-key. He even talked on records some. Growing up we never listened to country music, […]
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