Dec 20, 2012 | Blog
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:...
Dec 8, 2012 | Blog
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...
Dec 3, 2012 | Blog
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...
Nov 22, 2012 | Blog
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...
Nov 19, 2012 | Blog
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...
