As America celebrates her 250th birthday, citizens across our nation will gather beneath fireworks, wave flags and remember the extraordinary events that gave birth to the United States.
Sharon and I recently took a riverboat lunch cruise down the Cumberland River in Nashville. The cruise was great, but it was the lunch that lingers in my memory.
Are you feeling a bit down today? Feel like you are too small to make a difference in the world? You need to take a lesson from the cucumber.
We went to dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants. The food is usually great there and the service is prompt. But this particular night was different.
I just spent a weekend at Shocco Springs with an amazing group of people. I knew a few but most were complete strangers from every corner of Alabama.
Several years ago, I laid out seven considerations for Southern Baptists in the days ahead – thoughts about who we are, where we’ve been, and what we are becoming as a Convention of churches.
Our world changed in August 2024. A neighbor called to say, “Your wife is lying on the pavement.” When I got there, Bertha was on the ground surrounded by several neighbors.
“We’ve always done it that way,” a statement heard often in church circles. A statement that often follows is, “And it has worked for us in the past.”
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