Article VI, Paragraph III of the U. S. Constitution says in the last sentence – but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. Continue reading
Baptist
The division among us!
For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 1 Cor 3:3
This country is divided!
It is no wonder because the division runs throughout the whole of society. Continue reading
Goodbye… So long, my friend!

Terry and I at church devo time back in 2009.
I am a friend to anyone who fears you—anyone who obeys your commandments. Ps 119:63
Church camp is next week! I am just as excited as the church kids. It’s bittersweet though. Yesterday I received word that one of the adults that had come to camp died in May. Continue reading
Where is your name written?
Something I’ve noticed is how many have their name on a church roll somewhere and never attend church.
In one church the membership numbered 168 but the actual number that came to service was more like 40.
Another church had almost an identical statistic. Continue reading
Anoint my eyes that I may see!
When I left Macedonia Baptist, I had no place to go; no other church had called me to pastor. So Linda and I returned to our home church but I wasn’t the same as I was 6 years earlier. Continue reading
The Fullness of God

I have always tried to be open to the Holy Spirit. If God ask me to do it, I wanted to do it.
Truthfully, God can have you do some really strange things. Continue reading
A message in me!
I remember my first sermon in front of a crowd, other than my home church. The year was 1976 and it was at White Rock Baptist Church.
I had a message built up inside of me that I just had to get out. Continue reading
Preaching begins!
Linda and I met in the neighborhood of October 1975 and married in May 1979. During that time I attended college in Jacksonville, Texas – 80 miles away.
I would come home every weekend to see her and attend my home church.
Many things happened between those years. Continue reading