I have certainly evolved in my eating habits as a human over the last year, and as you know I now try to follow a healthy diet most days. I always had been a meat, bread and potato guy, shunning most vegetables and I was not big on fruit. I did chocolate like a crack addict, and pie was in my food pyramid. Continue reading
Category Archives: Sermon
The Five Second Church
What is the longest sermon that you have ever heard? I hope you don’t say this one because all mine are pretty much under 20 minutes. They may seem long, but trust me, they are not. It is not that I can’t preach a long one like those other Baptist, it is just I figured out a long time ago that one 45 minute sermon is the same work as three 15 minutes sermons. And besides, I am always afraid that I am just one week away from running out of soap. Continue reading
The Drawer
OK, let’s get this out of the way, a number of people are telling me that they have seen the ad in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette of my upcoming speech on humor and health for the Active Living program at Baptist Health. It has run in the paper under the title “Chuckle Therapy,” and that is bothersome to me on several levels. Continue reading
The Case of the Honest Politician
I am excited to have two chaplain residents joining my department from Slovakia this August, Dasa and Klara, both graduating from seminary in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia very soon. I know little about Slovakia, but in my correspondence with them and in my time talking with them I have been impressed on several levels. I am impressed with their sense of calling, their willingness to pack up and come to the United States for a year so that they can help find their place in ministry and take back new opportunities to the peoples of Slovakia. Continue reading
My Own Personal Jesus
Thank you for sending Dianna and I to the Alliance of Baptists Convocation in New Orleans, we had a great trip. You have heard about the convocation, now for the rest of the story. The weather was fantastic, 80 degrees and sunny, the dogwoods and azaleas were in full splendor, and at least the French Quarter, the Garden District, Downtown and Uptown have recovered nicely from Katrina. However, Dianna and I drove through the 9th ward where many poor and marginalized peoples lived and things there are not so good. Continue reading
Slim, Bubba, and the Man
Do you have a nickname? I have had a couple, in high school my friends all called me “Will” which is short of course for Wilson. The other one that people still call me is “The Man” as in “Stan the Man.” If I ever get a true sports car, I am going to have a custom licence plate that says “The Man” on it. Continue reading
The Genius Club
In last week’s sermon, you may recall that I bragged about how highly compatible my bride of 30 years and I are. And while this remains ever true, we do have different taste in many things. For example, one being movies. Now, Dianna likes the ubiquitous chick flick, and I do some of them, and I like male stereotypical action pics, but not all of them (since I basically am a peacenik who would rather as we said in the 60’s Continue reading
Rousing the Sleeping Giant
I ran across an article this past week that talked about the ways and means of how we argue and fight with each other as humans. The premise is that we all have certain techniques that we default to when we are in an argument with a colleague, or (dare I say) a spouse. Dianna (my wife) and I are incredibly compatible, and I cannot seriously remember our last fight, we just don’t do it. We just say no. Besides, after 30 years we already know what the other will think and say anyway before it is said. It also helps that she is right, she is right, she is alway Continue reading
Seeing God for the First Time
Well, I read a fascinating story this week in USA Today sports, maybe you heard or read the storyA hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one? Continue reading
Providence Cyber Church 