December 24, 2011 – 9:37 am
Here is this year’s Christmas photo and letter… xx
December 21, 2011 – 9:51 pm
When I was a boy, we always had Christmas morning at home with just my immediate family — mom, dad, my three sisters, and me. But on Christmas Eve…oh! on Christmas Eve, that is when Christmas really happened. At 5 o’clock or so, we would gather at Grandma and Grandpa Ryman’s house for dinner. The [...]
December 21, 2011 – 8:03 am
I went to the local Walgreens to pick up Christmas photos and a Texas Roadhouse gift card. They did not have Roadhouse gift cards but they did have my 100 photos, and I might add that they were very nicely printed. That Walgreens does a great job with prints. But I still needed the gift [...]
Ken Keller was Susan’s uncle. We went to Ohio to preach his funeral in February and I have finally edited the sermon from the service. The message (audio) is here. Ken’s obituary
November 21, 2010 – 11:19 am
A friend of mine mentioned minimalism the other day in a way that had nothing to do with music and art. Instead it involved everyday living, so I was intrigued. Then a friend (a member of my first church back in the 70s) on Facebook mentioned this site about being a consumer minimalist, so I [...]
August 13, 2010 – 10:43 am
I’m with my granddaughter today so her Dad can do some real estate business. It was pretty obvious she was ready for a nap so we talked for awhile and watched the cars and nature out the front window (she likes that). After she rubbed her eyes and gave other signs of being sleepy, I [...]
You will never watch a more alarming documentary than this 30-minute clip. The USA needs radical fiscal responsibility beyond what any US president since the Civil War has proposed. It will require America getting behind it with all they’re worth. Otherwise our grandchildren, if not our children, will become slaves to this incredibly enormous debt. [...]
“We’ve Got to Do Something About This” Philippians 3:4b-14 a sermon preached March 21, 2010, at Graham Friends Last Sunday the worship team was practicing before Sunday School when Christian Corbett came into the sanctuary. The expression on his face was serious, even concerned. He had been upstairs with his sister and she had evidently [...]
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October 9, 2009 – 7:14 am
“No Mumblin’ Word” Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 October 4, 2009 Since I was a young man, I have had difficulty hearing out of my right ear. When I get hearing tests, they tell me nothing is wrong but still, if my right ear is toward you and you don’t speak loudly enough, chances are, I am [...]
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September 27, 2009 – 8:53 pm
James 5:13-20 September 27, 2009 Augustine, the fourth century Bishop of the Church in Hippo, Africa (modern-day Annaba, Algeria), said, “Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless till it rest in Thee.” This seems related to the much older rabbinical teaching that a man cannot be healed until he deals with [...]
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