Jun 4, 2015 | Blog
Most schools just finished with another academic year and have graduated another class of students. Graduation services have been held. Here in Jefferson, GA, two male athletes stood in the position of valedictorian and salutatorian. Evan Shirreffs, the...
May 7, 2015 | Blog
Do we ever accomplish anything in ministry alone? I don’t think so. I thought about that recently when someone asked me to name some of the things I’ve accomplished throughout my ministry. While I can name some things, nothing on my list would qualify as a solo act....
Apr 30, 2015 | Blog
A few weeks ago Tina and I stopped in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to watch our first-ever regatta. As the sculls raced down the river toward the finish line, we listened as the coxswains called out words of instructions to the crews. The coxswain, or cox, as he or she is...
Apr 3, 2015 | Blog
There were four staff members including our organist; another musician; choir members; acolytes; a sound and lighting person; a soloist; seven readers; those who prepared the communion table and helped serve communion; and those who changed out the colors on our...
Mar 10, 2015 | Blog
The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1960 to 1968, ended as the number one show on television and it has been ranked by T.V. Guide as the ninth best show ever. One irony of this family-oriented show is that the majority of the characters are single. The main...
Mar 1, 2015 | Blog
My paths once crossed with a guitarist who was music leader for a pastor’s conference I was attending in Tennessee. He discovered that I had once pastored Trinity Baptist Church in Moultrie, GA. After he asked me about the music ministry there, I explained to him...
