Modern Stories of the Way

“When Religion Goes Bad” The other night while sleeping and praying, as I never know for certain whether I am sleeping or praying; it was about 4am and as I was worshiping the Lord and resting in his Holy Presence, in my spirit I saw an Imam sitting in the midst of a group of [...]

“Ben’s Big Burp” Ben related a story which comes out of Marlboro County, SC.  Ben and Hannah were attending Marlboro Academy, Ben was in 9th grade and Hannah in the 6th grade.  Ben reports that a foreign exchange student was leaving their school to go back to France and the school gave a party for [...]

  It had been raining a lot.  I am vacuuming water from the pool using a sump pump connected to a water hose.  Every week since the early February rains, I have taken water out of the pool, and every week I have grumbled about it. I told D,  "we no longer need a pool.  [...]

My dad and my mother had six children, and so for all of us to take a trip to the beach was a big deal.  It took lots of planning, more than a little bit of money and a reliable Ford Station Wagon, with opposing very back seats, which could sit 4 (that’s right) four [...]

Riding from home Saturday evening this past week I came upon a Ford 150 truck pulling a large bass boat.  The black bass boat, a Ranger, was so large the trailer had not two, but four wheels.  I pulled up behind the Ford pulling the bass boat waiting to turn off a local road onto [...]

“A Good Man – Sam Lindsey” Growing up in a stable community meant that almost everyone went to church, often the same church.  The Bowling Green Presbyterian Church, founded in 1917-18 is one such congregation.  Growing up I was one of 103 members of this church, and I was directly related to 100 of the [...]

“The Gift of a Heifer” I remember talking to my mom and dad when I joined the 4-H club in the 4th grade.  As a motivated 4-H member, I desperately needed a project to prove my worth in our club.  My best friend was planning to raise a steer from his father’s Black Angus herd.  [...]

“Quinn’s Silver” On this Valentine’s Day of 2016, just after my wife Dorothy and I celebrated 35 years of marriage, over a night steak and potatoes dinner, with horse radish Au Jus which I made from our garden, I was reminiscing around the dinner table and remembered this story for my son Ben. My grandfather, [...]

“Driving the Car Backwards, Part 4” BBC News- April 22, 2017 “There has been unease among researchers since Mr. Trump was elected in November.  More than 600 professors from one of the country’s leading research Universities, MIT, signed an open letter before his inauguration expressing their concerns.  It stated:  “The president-elect has appointed individuals to [...]

“Women Looking On Afar Off” April 14, 2017 “Good Friday” This morning while reading my personal meditation of the morning, from Mark chapters 14-15, as my way of honoring Christ on this Good Friday, I write about this little statement in Mark 15:40-41.  Here is what it says:                 There were also women looking on [...]