Author Archives: ThePreachersWord

While in Tennessee the past few days, we noticed a reoccurring message on electronic signs over the Interstate highways.

YOUR DECISIONS

DRIVE

YOUR SAFETY. Continue reading →

Today finds Norma Jean and me in Fayetteville, Tennessee, where I’m preaching in a meeting this week. It will be my first time to be with this church. And we’re looking forward to meeting the brethren, making new friends and worshiping together. Continue reading →

Yesterday Norma Jean and I had a rather unsettling experience at Dallas Love Field on the way to Nashville. While waiting in line to go through security I looked at her and said, “Where’s the camera case?”

“I thought you had it,” she replied. “I put it on the seat by you in the shuttle.”

“No, I don’t have it. I thought you had it.” Continue reading →

After a tiring two-week criminal trial in a high profile bank robbery case, the jury finally ended its 14 hours of deliberations and entered the courtroom to deliver its verdict to the judge. The judge turned to the jury foreman and asked, “Has the jury reached a verdict in this case?”

“Yes we have, your honor,” the foreman responded. Continue reading →

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything” observed our 26^th President, Teddy Roosevelt.

In his book, Confident Living, Warren Wiersbe, writes that the inventor Thomas Edison “spent more than $100,000 to obtain 6000 different fiber specimens, and only three of them proved satisfactory. Each failure brought him that much closer to the solution to his problem. His friend Henry Ford was right when he said that failure was the ‘opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.’” Continue reading →