by | Jun 4, 2019 | Inspiration
On October 27, 2018, once more our nation exhaled a collective gasp when news broke of another senseless mass shooting – this time in Pittsburg, PA. On that day Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Jewish Synagogue and sprayed his bullet-shaped vitriol into the...
by | May 3, 2019 | Inspiration
Recently I had a truly once in a lifetime experience. I attended my 50th high school reunion. Even though I took the time to study classmates’ pictures in my 12th grade yearbook prior to the event, in many cases it was not until I heard the name or saw it on a nametag...
by | Apr 1, 2019 | Inspiration
April is here, and with it comes more and more evidences that Spring has sprung and that Easter is not far away. With Easter approaching I was reminded of an experience I had on Good Friday morning several years ago. As I awoke that morning my mind was on the events...
by | Feb 2, 2019 | Inspiration
Back in the 1980’s my family lived in Columbia, SC, where I served on the ministry staff of Shandon Baptist Church. Our family lived next to a couple in their mid-70’s. His name was Charlie. One spring day while Charlie was mowing his grass, a rake-like attachment on...
by | Jan 2, 2019 | Inspiration
In a sermon my pastor recently preached, he mentioned a man named Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived the German Holocaust. Though Frankl survived, he lost several of his immediate family members to death by gas chamber, including his...
by | Dec 2, 2018 | Inspiration
Death has a way of sucking life out of living—especially at Christmas.It was two weeks before Christmas 2000. Around midnight I walked out of St. Luke’s Hospital in Columbus, NC, not far from where I was serving as Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Landrum, SC. I...
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