A New Phone App

I want to inform everyone of a new app that will update and replace my old app called “iDevotions.” This new app is called “Preaching Help,” and will contain what was on the old “iDevotions” app, plus more. Presently, the app is available for download for the iPhone/iPad and will soon be available on the …

The Thief on the Cross

The day Jesus died was a day in which the creation crucified the Creator. Yet, by the irony of divine wisdom, God used this gruesome means of taking life to give life! Not only did Jesus hang on that center cross, but so did the hope of all humanity.  This moment in time, and the transaction that took …

A Brush With Fame

Have you ever had a brush with fame? I had a professor in college who used to tell, in great detail, how he once sat next to Elizabeth Taylor on a flight. A Christian lady whom I once knew liked to tell how Tex Ritter came to her door after having an automobile accident, wanting …

Hate Speech

Is the church guilty of hate speech?  Some would emphatically deny it, but I would be more inclined to say, “guilty as charged.”  Now, don’t dismiss me and stop reading; please hear me out. I’m not suggesting that the church is guilty of “hate speech from the pulpit.  I would imagine the vast majority of …

205 Virginia Avenue

205 Virginia Avenue…That’s the address of just one of the 1292  houses in the small town of Chester, WV.  But it’s more than that to me.  It’s “my” house.  It’s the house I grew up in from the time I was two years old until I went off to college and got married.  For the …