Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
If the Baptist churches had Cardinals, Dr. Ches Smith would have been one. He might have gotten a few votes for Pope, if Baptists had one of those, but that’s one of the great differences between us and our Catholic friends. We don’t need a Pope but we...
Mar 10, 2013 | Blog
Brad Yoman has been navigating the swamps around the Altamaha River for over 30 years. He captains a 12-foot aluminum Jon boat with a 15hp two-stroke engine. It’s a small boat with a small motor but small is what you need when you are moving through the swamp....
Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
I’ve been a Rotarian now since 1996. Rotary is an international service organization. Our motto is a “Service Above Self.” In most cities around the world, you can find Rotarians meeting once a week, all seeking to make the world a better place to...
Feb 16, 2013 | Blog
In August 1956, Judge Julian Bennett, in his first case as a judge, handed down this sentence in the Jackson County Courthouse to James Foster for the murder of Jefferson businessman Charlie Drake, one of the town’s most popular citizens: “You will be put...
Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
We had an interesting visitor to our church office not long ago. A man fresh out of jail because of a DUI arrest stopped to ask for help. His truck was impounded and he needed a ride to his home, which was in a nearby city. Later that afternoon, I drove him to his...
Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
According to UNICEF, as of 2009, there were a total of 340,000 Liberian orphans; this out of a total child population of some 1,878,000 and a country of just three and a half million people. If you do the math, that’s about one orphan out of every nine...
