Jun 22
I preach for the Seven Oaks Church of Christ in Mayfield, Kentucky. Kentucky has several counties that have only one church of Christ. Now that my kids are getting older, I wanted to lead a group, with the help of my wife, to one of these congregations this year to preach a meeting and hold …
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May 25
So often when we study the Bible regarding marriage we look to the classic texts. Passages like Genesis 2, Matthew 19, and Ephesians 5. Those are great texts on the topic, but the whole Bible shares principles that are helpful for this most foundational of all relationships. Here are seven Bible principles I have chosen …
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Apr 28
I am proud of our ladies at Seven Oaks. This past Friday they held their 10th annual Ladies’ Night. Many churches have ladies’ days, which are very effective and have their place in the church. But our ladies wanted to do something different ten years back. So they started a ladies’ night. Ladies love to …
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Apr 18
Amanda is teaching the kids about the Civil Rights movement and segregation in the South. They are reading a historical fiction children’s book about Birmingham in 1963. To accompany this study we watched a documentary yesterday made in 1997 called “4 Little Girls” about the 16th Street Baptist church of Birmingham bombing that killed four …
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Apr 03
The woman had been stooped over for 18 years. She did not have the ability to straighten herself up. Imagine the discomfort and public shame this brought. Likely her backbone vertebrae had become fused together. But she caught the eye of Jesus. He saw her, called her over to him, and spoke words of healing …
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Mar 23
In part one I discussed the impact of youth sports upon families and how we must seek to manage our involvement with sports. All of these thoughts I am sharing found their stimulus in Mike Matheny’s book The Matheny Manifesto. Mike is the current manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. The book was excellent. It …
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Feb 28
I am a Los Angeles Laker’s fan. That is what I claim, but don’t test my fan prowess! No riddling me with questions like these: Who are their starters this year? What is their record? Are they going to make the playoffs? But I am a fan of the Lakers. I know all of their …
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Feb 01
I have had sheep on the farm since 2014. We started with two ewes and a ram. We have an unusual breed of hair sheep called Barbados Blackbelly Sheep. They are very skittish and flighty. They aren’t your cute cuddly version of sheep. We raise them for the meat, which tastes very good. We recently …
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Jan 29
Sheriff Mike Chitwood of Volusia County, Florida was caught by one of his own deputies going 78 mph in a 55 mph zone. The deputy realized who he had stopped and declined to give his boss a ticket. When the sheriff reflected on the incident and his own example, he went back to the deputy and asked …
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