Encouraging Extraordinary!

Photo Credit Outdoor Discovery   When in high school, a church friend and I were excited to go water skiing one Summer afternoon after we go...

  Back when churches did Tuesday night visitation to meet the people who had come as guests on the Sunday before, sometimes those doorstep v...

  My father and I had been at our houseboat doing some work on it. It was a very hot day, so several people had come to the shore at the sta...

  A seat at the table. My paternal grandmother was a widow, she had been since her 40’s. A child of the Great Depression, she was very shrew...

   Photo: cordelegeorgia.blogspot.com As a young student pastor in my first church after seminary, I was excited to take my students on a mi...

I had played tennis several times a week in Middle School at the asphalt courts owned by the church next to my home and loved it. I was hope...

Photo: Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek Mrs. Blackburn made the most delicious skillet popcorn, salted and buttered just right, serve...