Prayers For Veteran’s Day

 
On Veteran’s Day, let us all pause to honor our service men and women, and to recall the sacrifices of those who gave their lives in defense of freedom and liberty.This year, our thoughts especially turn to those who were killed at Ft. Hood, and their families.
The following prayers are from the A Book of [...]

The Parson’s View: All Hallow’s Eve & All Saints Day

I have to say it–I don’t like Halloween. I have my reasons, and in my mind, they are good ones. Maybe part of the reason I’m grumpy about Halloween is that I cut my finger carving up a pumpkin this evening. No…that’s not my problem!
It is too gory, too dark, and has far too much [...]

Kentucky’s Natural Bridge

In our church, we have a group who takes monthly educational and fellowship-building trips. We call them “the Travelers” and I’m the “designated driver” for the group unless some urgent pastoral need arises. This month’s trip was to Natural Bridge State Park.
Natural Bridge is in Powell County, Kentucky and it is one of the most [...]

Williamsburg’s Bruton Parish Church

Here are some more images from Williamsburg, VA.
The old Bruton Parish church was one site in Colonial Williamsburg I was interested to see. It is still an active congregation.

Bruton Parish Church was organized  in the 1670s. Best as I could tell, the structure dated to around the year 1715, although their history says the interior [...]

Frontier Faith At Jamestown

This is the memorial church at Jamestown. The tower dates back to the late 1600s, but the church behind it was built in 1907 as a tribute to the earlier churches that stood on the site.
The earlier settlers had a brick church by 1620, it appears. That building stood until Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, when [...]

Visit to Jamestown, VA

We took our family vacation to the Tidewater area of Virginia this past week. We visited Jamestown, Yorktown, and Colonial Williamsburg. and for me, the trip to Jamestown was the highlight of our trip to the Tidewater.

It was something to stop and realize that my own ancestors got off a ship from England as indentured [...]

THE PROOFS!

There won’t be any new posts for a few days. The proofs of my first book, Born in the Heart of God: A History of Clear Creek Baptist Bible College, 1926-2008 have arrived, and I’ll be reviewing them over the next few days.
This project was started in November 2005, and is now just about [...]

The Crucible of Personal Pain…

I have been reading J.C. Ryle’s biography That Man of Granite With the Heart of A Child by Eric Russell. Russell writes in a popular style, and the book is very accessible.
There is one particular truth that rises out of the book: God’s grace, at work in Ryle’s personal difficulties made him the man he [...]

All Steamed Up: The Mikado & Railroad History

The Illinois Central Railroad company donated this Mikado type steam engine, to the city of Paducah in 1963, to be a “reminder” of the days of steam locomotives and their importance to the River City. The steam era of trains died out in this country in the 1960s, as diesel engines became the mainstays of the rail [...]

All Saints’ Day: A Baptist View

Halloween is over–I’m not wild about that day, honestly. There’s too much money spent on gory decorations and plain old devilishness. But November 1 is a better day. In the Christian calendar, it is All Saint’s Day. That’s probably even where the word “Halloween” came from: “All Hallow’s Eve (Hallow=Saint).”
All Saints’ Day goes back a long, [...]