Recently at a church where I was preaching on Sunday morning, a lady was telling me a story about her daughter when the daughter was in grade school. She was telling me about the daughter because as I got up to preach that Sunday, I encouraged the people to use the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering [...]
I just wanted to write a personal note of thanksgiving and blessings to so many of you who have expressed an interest in getting one of the Directions books. Through the years, I have put together a number of small books that have been used and fairly well-received by the churches where I have been [...]
Furtherance is not a word that you hear very often. In fact, it may be that you’ve never heard anybody use the word furtherance. I suppose it used to be more popular than it is now and we have no doubt in the English language found some ways of coming up with a better, cuter [...]
The Scripture says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me” (Psalm 103:1). I know that most of us certainly want God to bless us, but the psalmist calls for us to bless God to pour out our praise and adoration and blessings toward Him. In just a few days all [...]
Fall is a beautiful time of the year. While every season has its grand features — spring with all the blooming flowers, summer with its magnificent green leaves and grass, winter with its stunning grayness, and winter’s occasional covering of white — it is fairly easy to make the argument that fall is the most [...]
In the Gospel of John 19:30, the memorable, iconic, and chilling words of Jesus were spoken from the cross: “It is finished.” A lifetime of living on this earth among people who in every case were sinners and enemies of God. These people in one way or another participated in Jesus being led to the [...]
Directions, the weekly article that has appeared in The Baptist Record for 21 years, is now a book. A book with a directional thought for each day throughout the twelve months. Through the years, so many of you have requested that I put Directions together so that you would have them in book form, and [...]
Next week, Mississippi Baptists from all around the state will gather in Jackson’s First Baptist Church for our annual convention. It is the 184th convention of Mississippi Baptists. Through the decades, it has been an incredible, wonderful experience for me personally, but also for so many who gather for fellowship, inspiration, encouragement, challenge, and celebration [...]
Just reading the title and starting to read this article, you may think to yourself, “That’s kind of crazy, writing an article about nothing,” and I am confident that some of you get way ahead of my writing and you say, “I’ve read a number of your articles that were about nothing.” I get you, [...]
A little over a year ago, I was privileged to be at the funeral service honoring Jack Maroon Sr. Although he was approaching ninety years of life and service to the Lord, he never seemed to be anywhere near that old. He was always cheerful, upbeat, buoyant in spirit, and ready to serve the Lord. [...]
