I love amateur photography. I have taken a few really good photos in my life and many not so good or mediocre ones. I am amazed at the PICs that Emily (our church member & wedding photographer) has taken of my Emily (my daughter), but I know she is a professional, and I know she has a good subject to work with. I hope to someday get a good camera and one of those super-duper printers that are wide carriage and take eight separate ink wells. Of course, buying eight cartridges of ink is worse than filling up the Yukon with a tank of gas, but the resultant prints are remarkable. Continue reading
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Climb Every Mountain
I have an announcement to make this morning: I am climbing Mount Everest. Well not really; you see we have a Mount Everest Fitness Club at the hospital and it involves stair climbing. You have to climb enough stairs to equal the height of Mount Everest, which is roughly 29,000 feet or almost six miles up. Now six miles doesn’t sound very far, but it is when it is straight up. Continue reading
Honest to God
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
Unholy wars
I have a minister friend from Memphis, Tennessee, where there are more Baptist than people. He told me the story of a Baptist Church of some reputation there. It seems that someone called the police to this Baptist Church because of a ruckus going on there. When the police arrived, they found a microphone cord noose around the pastor’s neck, and the deacons trying to hang the pastor. Continue reading
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 Son of Sam and The Son of Man
Let’s begin today with a bit of trivia, so let’s see how you do – what do George Bush, Jimmy Carter John Ashcroft, Dan Quayle have in common? They are all politicians. How about the next list: Supermodel Kim Alexis, Stephen Baldwin, Jane Fonda, Tom Hanks, Richard Kiel and Gary Busey? They are all actors, or in the entertainment business. Now that you know how this game works, you will guess the next list: 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
Supersize Me
We have had a flurry of new restaurants in that have opened up lately in Maumelle, particularly of the fast food variety. I really like one of the new places, called Taco Bueno, which is a chain out of Texas. It is really nothing more than a supped up Taco Bell, but it is better than Taco Bell and better than some of the Senior Tequila knock-offs that occupy strip malls everywhere in Maumelle. I went by the other night to take an order home after working late, and in doing so I bumped up against one of my personal limitations. Continue reading
All About Eve
People at the hospital are always asking my opinion about things such as current events, and fortunately for them I almost always have an opinion to offer. Though I have learned the fine art of diplomacy along with fine tuning my ability to read people like a book, I am sometimes guarded in my answers. They say of course you shouldn’t speak of politics or religion in mixed company, but since religion is my business I try to make it everyone else’s business as well. 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
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