If you’re unfamiliar with the Spanish language, a “puente” is a bridge. Earlier this summer my family and I drove over the new Ohio River bridges between Louisville (both downtown and in the Prospect area) and Southern Indiana. Very impressive.…

I love pastoring this church, because I love the people of this church. But, sometimes, your burdens become mine. By that I mean that I find myself tossing and turning at 3:00 in the morning because of obstacles that my…

No mortgage and no marriage? Though statistics and demographics seem clearly to indicate that American young adults are putting off “growing up” in favor of some kind of extended adolescence, nobody likes to hear that they’re stuck in some state…

The Lakes of Paducah is a wonderful assisted living facility here in our community. Wednesday night, as our 2017 SUMMER OF SERVICE continued, our goal was to “love on” the Lakes residents – some of our faithful church members are…

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix. I’ll share just one pic – which is downtown Phoenix (and the convention center where #SBC17 was held) just after take-off for the return…

So some of the boys in the church enjoyed my last blog posting. How about pirates, then, one more time? Robert Louis Stevenson, way back in 1881, penned his famous Treasure Island. Las Vegas has a pirate-themed hotel by the…

I remember well my first trip to Walt Disney World as a kid. It was 1971, and the year that the Magic Kingdom opened in Florida. What was my favorite attraction? The Pirates of the Caribbean! The original version at…

Unlike Jill Cummins, this is a scenario you’ll likely never face. Jill’s 50-year-old husband, Tad Cummins, was arrested on April 20 after he kidnapped 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas and fled the state of Tennessee. They were found unharmed in Northern California.…

You may not think of yourself as a creative person, but you are! Each one of us was created – literally – as a creative being. In fact the very first chapter of the Bible informs us (Genesis 1:26): “Let…

I don’t have to tell you about all of the political feuding in America. You need no more updates. You don’t need to hear anything else from me on that subject, so I won’t go there. I found it fascinating…