Posts from 2026

For 13 or 14 years I attended Sardis Lake Christian Camp in Mississippi as both a camper and a counselor. I remember the Paschall family from very early on in my time there. Matt was still a camper there when we moved to Texas and after making a trip back to SLCC in 2010 (we may have returned in 2011, I can’t remember). I was finally able to return to SLCC in 2024 as a counselor. Outside of a few…

A man came out of his house on his way to worship services one Sunday morning. At the same time his neighbor came out of his house, fishing pole in hand. The neighbor said, “Jim, why don’t you go fishing with me today. The fishing report from my buddies at work is that the bass are tearing it up over at the lake back around Buzzard Slew.” Jim, with an expression of disgust on his face, replied, “This is the…

The man Jonah is a mystery. First alluded to in 2 Kings 14:25[i], all that is recorded of him there is that he prophesied concerning the restoration of the “territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah”; he was the son of Amittai and was from Gath Hepher. Nothing else is recorded of him until we get to the book which bears his name. That he was a real, historical person, there can be…

A new year has begun and many have made resolutions. Each person has another opportunity to do things he failed to do in the past year or to quit things he was doing. Each person begins with a “clean slate” so to speak regarding the new year. As Christians we have the opportunity to do things for Christ in this year that we failed to do last year. It could be that we passed up opportunities to teach others about…