Life in the Skillet

Harold D. Fanning. Longwood, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2005. 184 pp. (Paperback).

With this moving production, Harold D. Fanning, the pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church, Decatur, in Morgan Baptist Association, has “hit a home run.”

What Fanning has accomplished is a work that focuses on growing up in Lick Skillet and the lessons he learned.

Evangelist Junior Hill has appropriately written: “Harold Fanning has a unique and charming way of sharing everyday events, seeing the funny side of them and then carefully weaving into the story clear and helpful spiritual applications.”

Here is a nostalgic reminder of the innocence of childhood, and readers will find themselves laughing, crying and learning a few lessons along the way. The author currently serves as president of the Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference.