Encouraging Extraordinary!

  During those long Summer days, My Dad would sometimes come home from a busy day at Norwood Medical Clinic and say, “let’s go fishing!” In ...

Credit Adage.com   One Christmas my family was to drive across Tennessee from Knoxville to Memphis, then down into Mississippi to visit some...

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...