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(Yesterday morning, a brother told me that this news story would make a good article. He even gave me the title for the article. I’m just filling in the blanks). Just yesterday, I learned of the death of Jamie Coots. Jamie died after being bitten by a poisonous snake during a “snake handling church service.” …
Social injustice, homosexual marriage, divorce, cohabitation, adultery, premarital sex, pornography, abortion, casual drug use, the rejection of absolutes, the immorality of the entertainment industry…these are a representative sample of some of the things our culture embraces today. Can the church survive such moral degradation? Can it survive 21st century American culture, or will it become …
Today, I drove 50 miles from the campus of Freed-Hardeman University to take a picture of an old abandoned church building. This building formerly housed the Hickory Plains Church of Christ. In 1982 and 1983, I took turns every other Sunday preaching at this congregation while I was a student in college. Every other Sunday, …
Today is “Super Bowl Sunday,” and with it comes quite a few memories. You see, when the NFL lengthened it’s season a few years ago, it put the Super Bowl on the same weekend that my mom and dad would make their annual trek to Freed-Hardeman University for their lectureship. That meant that they would …
A great deal of attention has been given to Richard Sherman’s post game interview following Seattle’s victory over San Francisco this past Sunday. In this interview, Sherman loudly and rather obnoxiously disrespected an opposing player. His rant has “turned off” most football fans, myself included. But as I have had time to think about this …