Determining Value in Life’s Daily Auction

Determining Value in Life’s Daily Auction

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...
Taking Digital Sabbaths in 2013

Taking Digital Sabbaths in 2013

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...
In Defense of Our Schools and the First Amendment

In Defense of Our Schools and the First Amendment

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....
Addressing Violent Video Games After Sandy Hook

Addressing Violent Video Games After Sandy Hook

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 Was A Quadriplegic But Not Handicapped

Denny Was A Quadriplegic But Not Handicapped

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...
A Commitment to the Coach and the Team

A Commitment to the Coach and the Team

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...