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  Medal of Honor recipient Leroy Petry was in a 2008 firefight in Afghanistan. Though already wounded in both legs, he grabbed a live grenade that landed amid his team and attempted to throw it away. It exploded before he could release it, destroying his right hand and forearm and shredding him with shrapnel. Putting […]

  There is power in the spoken word. When God created, He spoke. When He and His people blessed, they spoke. When people cursed, they spoke. What was said out loud could not be unsaid. It was concrete; its utterance made it so. That truth should be enough to cause us all to examine our […]

When I taught at the University of the Ozarks there was always that moment at the first day of classes when one or more student would realize that he or she had the wrong book.  College texts are constantly being updated as new information and research emerge.  It’s not uncommon to see the wordsupdated or revised splashed across […]

My son Clint doesn’t trust banks.  I can’t understand where this comes from.  Just because 414 banks failed during the Great Recession, and the FDIC bailed out one large bank to the tune of over #38 Billion, why does he have concerns?  I mean, yes, it’s true that the FDIC has hundreds of banks placed […]

  Question for the week: “Are you feeling besieged?” Don’t be surprised if you answered yes. Few people go through life with a sense of invulnerability. We question our strength, and, when trouble strikes, we doubt our ability to stand. We don’t feel invincible, so we fear trials. When war or minor conflicts break out […]

A few years ago we had an old fashioned tent meeting out on the lawn of the Kirk.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Although I have to admit that the heat and pending storm didn’t add to the experience.  Our idea was to get visible.  We called it a “Revival.”  Our […]

As I type this, large numbers of individuals are working to get ready to travel to the East Coast as volunteers.  Listening to the sound-bites on news reports, we hear these individuals speak of their pure motives, element of faith, and an abundance of human wisdom.  There’s nothing wrong with pure motives, the faith, or […]

  Recent report says that the average attention span can be as short as eight seconds. Now, where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, when it comes to sustained attention – staying on task to accomplish goals, most people stay focused for about twenty minutes. We can then choose to repeatedly refocus on that […]

  There is a story about a fourth grader, who was mistreated by a school official. Seems that the official had a falling-out with the child’s father, and he took out his anger on the child. Years later when the child became a minister, and during his first pastorate, he heard that the old antagonist […]