Remaining Thankful
Tweet by Rev. Keith Hood We’ve had much to be thankful for in our lives .We have a gracious God who bestows good upon us even when we forget His benevolence. When I reflect back upon the first Thanksgiving celebrations, I see a group of people who didn’t approach life with a sense of entitlement. These [...]
Read More →Cross Cultural Inter-Denominational Revival
Tweet We had a blessed time at the Cross Cultural Inter-Denominational Revival this week. For a pictorial diary of the event, go to facebook and search for “CrossCultural.” There was another event of significance this Saturday. The Philema Road Baptist Church raised its new cross as a testimony to the work of Christ. Many came [...]
Read More →Hope for the world still has a place in the church.
Tweet Christians are often a wildly pessimistic lot. Anyone who knows much about the Bible would find that kind of strange, I would imagine. How could those who profess faith in a God of promise, in a God who declares, “Behold I make all things new,” and “All things are possible with God,” and who [...]
Read More →Comfort the Afflicted, Afflict the Comfortable
Tweet There was a saying that newspaper reporters use to have about their work. “We are here,” they would say, “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” It is an admirable work. To dive into the dark places of society and let people know what is going on. To inevitably cause change through reporting.
Read More →Cross Cultural Revival
Tweet You may have seen the posters in many locations in Leesburg about the Cross Cultural Revival we have scheduled for November 8 through Saturday, November 10. It has also be advertised on the radio and in the Lee County Ledger. If you missed all of that so far, it will be at 603 Hwy [...]
Read More →God Is Love
Tweet I need to say that I am not a writer. What I mean is that I have never felt particularly called to write. I am a preacher and a pastor. That, I feel called to do, but writing, well this avenue of communication makes me nervous. Maybe because I cannot see how you are [...]
Read More →Praying in Public
Tweet Suspended. Put in timeout. What are we going to do with this trouble-maker? If we ignore him long enough, he will just fall through the cracks and we won’t have to think about him anymore. We could, however, consider his side of the story. Is he telling the truth? “Jesus answered, ‘You say [...]
Read More →God has a plan for you
Tweet “My worst day in America is better than my best day in Vietnam. Folks over here don’t know how good they’ve got it.” This came out of a conversation I was having with Tommy Marchman, former Police Chief of Sylvester and Vietnam Veteran. We had been discussing politics when the issue of freedom came [...]
Read More →Christ is our Role Model
Tweet “The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy new and the man in the moon. ‘When ya comin’ home Dad?’, ‘I don’t know when; but we’ll get together then. You know we’re gonna have a good time then!” That song by Harry Chapin still haunts those of us who remember it. [...]
Read More →October is Breast Cancer Month
Tweet It has been 3 years since the following happened. Coming up on October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to run it as I did then. Janice has been cancer free since 2009. Here it goes:
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