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It's not every day that an old home with all its contents is sold at auction.  Most of the time, family members have made their way through the belongings of the deceased, picking the valuables clean, like a cotton picker plucking cotton from a field, leaving little...

We live in an age of technology where we are accessible at any time and at almost any place.  Look at the Verizon and the AT & T Coverage Maps and you will not see a lot of white spaces.  Towers have connected us to each other through our mobile phones to the...

I often hear people say that the reason for our country's moral decline is because we can't read the Bible in the classrooms and because we took prayer out of the schools.  It's the tar baby answer for everything that's wrong with our country. Recently, former...

Not long ago I sat and watched a couple of young boys as they played video games. While the younger boy raced cars, the older boy played a military commando game.  The object of the race was obvious: finish first.  The object of the commando game was obvious, too:...

Denny Jarman, a quadriplegic since 1988, died recently from complications from his injuries sustained nearly a quarter century ago when his Datsun 280ZX struck a 2,500 pound Black Angus cow in the road near his Lake Jackson home near Jefferson, Georgia.  Doctors said...

Sunday, December 2, my niece, Hillary McCoy, was baptized in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Central Baptist Church, which sits in the shadows of Bryant Denny Stadium.  She had a lot of family present: her mother and father, twin brothers, her newest sister-in-law, and her...

Four years ago, Mark Mullis and Chad Purvis came to me with an idea really good idea.They wanted to put together a 5K-run on Thanksgiving morning and use the run as a way to raise awareness of the good work done by the volunteers of the food bank at First Baptist...

While walking around in a market in Cieneguilla, Peru, I noticed small bags of pecans hanging up for sale.  There in the midst of many kinds of fruit I couldn't identify, was a fruit I can walk out of my office and pick up in our church's parking lot. We have about a...

Cieneguilla, Peru The ashy, lifeless Andes Mountains rise above the small village of Cieneguilla, Peru. The evidence of poverty surrounds this place like the mountains. It's an odd place to make a home. Everything has to be brought here because nothing grows naturally...

Teenage years can be filled with fun and excitement.  It's also a very awkward time. The bodies of teenagers are constantly changing as hormones produce growth spurts that make them feel like they suddenly inhabited someone else's body. Along with the physical...