Posts from February 2026

1. Showing kindness to an aged person. Lev. 19:32, “Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.” Job 12:12, “With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.” Prov 23:22, “Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.” 2. Destroying a letter written in anger. Eph 4:26, 31‑32, “Be ye angry, and sin not:…

What is worship? Sounds like a simple enough question, doesn’t it? In this day and time, however, it is not so simple. Worship is defined by Webster as, 1) “reverent honor and homage;” 2) “adoring reverence or regard;” 3) “to attend services of divine worship.” Our English word “worship” originally came from the Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, from weorth, (worthy, honorable), and scipe (ship), developing later into worship (attributing worth to a thing or person). Of course, there is no one else…

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…