December 26, 2007 – 11:00 pm
I listened this afternoon to Dr. Leland Ryken’s message, in which he contends many things I have been telling my churches for years—though admittedly more thoughtfully than I have done. Obviously, since he is an editor of the volume I will be using, the message played wonderfully well into my Bible reading plan for the [...]
December 26, 2007 – 9:32 pm
Susan gave me an iPod for Christmas. It was a total surprise and a great gift. At first, I didn’t think it was a gift for me. However, as usual, she listens to me better than I hear myself. For some time, I have been downloading sermons from SermonAudio.com. I have transferred some of them [...]
December 26, 2007 – 2:14 pm
Playing a bit of catch-up…here are photos of this year’s Christmas Parade here in Graham, NC. This year’s parade had over 200 entries. Most are very nice. The high school marching bands and the floats are great. But the business stuff…including all of the tacky “sponsored by” signs on the floats are, well…tacky. What a [...]
December 25, 2007 – 12:58 pm
The big news at our house this year was that Miriam married Dan Vines on September 2nd. Our thanks to many of you who made the trip from near and far to celebrate that day with them. Dan is the Assistant Manager for Gamestop in Randleman and Miriam is Staff Assistant for “Duke in New [...]
December 23, 2007 – 1:22 pm
Why should one read the Bible all the way through? One reason is that we often get fixated with favorite passages. As a result, what God wants us to learn is overlooked simply because we are never exposed to the “volume of the book.” There is a treasure in there, waiting to be discovered and [...]
December 23, 2007 – 11:26 am
I have finally migrated all of my old blog over to WordPress. It took more doing than I imagined…different kind of coding and not as user friendly as old Adobe PageMill. Still, WordPress will allow commenting and that’s what I was going for in switching over. Now all I have to do is make all [...]
December 21, 2007 – 5:22 pm
I put together a plan today for reading though the Bible in 90 days. Many people think about reading though their Bible in the new year but few actually accomplish the task, tending to start with a bang but fizzle out in a month or so. This year there are many things that will help [...]