Bad Things,Good People
Tweet by Garrett Andrew One of my favorite writers/preachers, Fredrick Buechner, once said, “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Terrible things happen. A person or people decided to bomb runners and those that love them. Three are dead, many more are maimed, lives have been altered by violence [...]
Read More →Spring and Renewal
Tweet This is one of my favorite times of the year. Flowers are blooming wherever I look. The weather is warming but the chill of the morning air is still present. Things are starting to look greener. Days are getting longer. All in all life is beginning to resurrect from the dark days of winter.
Read More →i go a fishing
Tweet The title for this post comes from what I find to be one of the most humorous yet promising statements in all of scripture. I ripped it off from Peter. It was statement he made in John 21:3 (King James Version). Peter made the declaration after a visit from Jesus…after He (Jesus) [...]
Read More →Living a Life of Celebration or Complaint
Tweet My son got into the bed with me and my wife this morning and I could feel him staring at me. It was the kind of stare where I could sense the cogs of his mind working and I did not have to ask what he was thinking because he would soon tell me. [...]
Read More →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 →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 →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 →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 →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:
Read More →Soul Food from the Hood
Tweet “Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.” I remember sitting in front of our record player as a little child and I would watch the 45 rpm record go round and round. Little Jackie Paper “loved that rascal Puff.” I could [...]
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