. I read yesterday that one of my dad’s musical buddies, Jerry Reed had just died after spending some time in hospice care. Best known, of course, for his role as “The Snowman” in the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie “Smokey and the Bandit” (and singing/co-authoring the movie’s theme song.) In his later years, he came ...
How many times a day (if you even bother to listen) does somebody try to tell you that you’re lost? Even as a fully-included Baptised member of the Body of Christ who just doesn’t follow The Crowd… are you lost? Pish-tosh. Those of us who are Christian, the belief is that we are marked as ...
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As the Deer is one of my favorite contemporary “Worship Songs” – though you don’t need to be walking into the First Church of PowerPoint to enjoy the message and beauty of this simple hymn. I’ve overheard homeless kids singing this in a park at night, in a place they shouldn’t be. And I’ve heard ...
My maternal grandfather, the namesake now of one of my first cousin’s boys, he was a World War II veteran. A quiet, Holy man who dearly loved his wife and his family. When the time came in 1986 that my grandmother died, it seems as if Papaw just sat himself down in a chair, and ...
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I woke up this morning and started my daily round of emails with a song rattling around in my head. it was “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder,” the version done by my friends Sweet Honey in the Rock. To paraphrase another old song, somebody was tryin’ to tell me something. Only thing was: my head ...
