• Sunday School Party Animals

    My Texan Sunday School teacher was a Democrat who managed to work the Party’s platform into of every lesson to captive Baptist seminarians. Democrats ruled Texas for 100 years, voting last for Jimmy Carter in 1976. After all, “Jesus rode into Jerusalem, not on an elephant, but a donkey!” Another ancient and frequent visitor was…

  • Emperor Worship

    St. Peter addressed Simon Magus who attempted to convert the laying on of hands into a “for profit” (first mistyped “for prophet”, which would fit) enterprise: 20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your…

  • Bulldozers for Christ

    Like a Good Neighbor. There was a large white middle class church out of parking in a booming Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Older small homes of minorities landlocked the church. The church pastor and board became possessed with a plan: eliminate the houses around the church to expand the blacktop. So the plan was launched to…

  • The Pastor and the Floozy

    “The issue facing us is not the left versus the right but the crisis of intolerance.”-Pastor Vincent Woolsey Tolerance … “The pastor’s wife is a bar-fly who frequents a bar. We don’t want our church money going to a floozy … ” So, the rumors wafted about the local teetotaling Wesleyan Methodist pastor’s wife and…

  • Exotic Masks

    The Pandemic is so bad … that strip clubs are charging extra to remove face masks. Mask Police Retailers and their employees are finding themselves playing the uncomfortable role of mask police. The increase in coronavirus cases is prompting concern over how to protect both customers and workers in crowded stores from infecting each other….

  • Journey into Joy

    Behind the Camera Lens The preparation of today’s blog became an exercise in joy itself. For days from my devotional porch swing, I watched the rising sun kiss the sunflowers in a daily greeting, accompanied with a chorus of hummingbirds and bees. I felt joy surround me and the impression from God saying, “My joy…

  • Oxygen

    How can a doctor run 22 miles, wear a face mask, and not lose oxygen… while a retired Walmart shopper complains about face masks and can’t run a can opener without getting winded?

  • Mask Etiquette

    Someone needs to invent a mask you can kiss your wife through. Wait … you’re supposed to take it off?