Category Archives: Discipleship

Norman Vincent Peale relates this story from his book, Power of the Plus Factor:

”Once walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos available.”

“On the chest or arms you could have tattooed an anchor or flag or mermaid or whatever. But what struck me with force were three words that could be tattooed on one’s flesh, ‘Born to Lose’.” Continue reading →

Yesterday we wrote about this special day, the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving, identified as #GivingTuesday.

Giving is good. It is the nature of God. And it is directed by Biblical principles. Here are 7 Scriptural guidelines for giving. Continue reading →

Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  By now, you know we’ve taken the week off from publishing new posts.  But have been regblogging past posts.  This one is from November of 2015.  It’s from column we published from 2012-2015–“It’s Friday. But Sunday’s Coming!” It’s one of 175 posts from that period.  You can access all of the posts from this link.\

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Greetings from Indian Shores Beach, Florida

We’re here for our annual family Thanksgiving getaway.  The hurricanes took a toll on the beach community.  Lots of places still closed.  But several are open for business.  They seem glad that we still decided to come.

Today’s post, our weekly recap of the past week’s posts, will be our last new post for November.  We’re taking next week off to relax, recharge and enjoy family as we give thanks. I will however, reblog some past posts next week. Continue reading →

I’m facebook friends with a young lady, Becky René, who’s the daughter of gospel preacher, David Cambridge, who preaches in London, England.

I don’t remember how, when, or why I became one of Becky’s facebook friends, but I’m glad I did. She’s obviously a very spiritually minded and evangelistic young lady, who provides some encouraging and sometimes humorous posts on her page. Continue reading →

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

You recognize these words as the opening of President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address, which were delivered on this date in 1863. Continue reading →

David Brooks is a Canadian born opinion columnist who writes about social, political and cultural issues. In a recent issue of The New York Times ,writing about the political divide in the United States, Brooks commented that we are facing “a crisis of respect” in our country.

We have written a good deal about the Biblical attitude we should have leading up to last week’s election. In looking back, all the posts were based on the idea of respect. This is not another blog post about the election. It is however, an appeal for us to evaluate of our level of respect in all of our relationships. Continue reading →

Last Sunday, Norma Jean and I visited the church at Cosby, Tennessee, and enjoyed hearing our friend, 92-year old Olie Williamson, teach the Bible class and preach at the worship service.

Most of the class was centered around the text found in Hebrews 11:8-10. Continue reading →

Although he professed a personal faith, American humorist and author Samuel Clement, (a.k.a. Mark Twain) was known as an outspoken critic of organized religion and hypocrisy among religious leaders.

The story is told that Twain attended church one Sunday and informed the preacher at the door that he had a book at home with every word he had preached that morning.

The preacher assured Twain that his sermon was original and demanded to see the book. Twain said he would send it over. Continue reading →