I don’t know how many times we have all heard that! “When we get back to ‘normal’!” Or “When are we going to get back to ‘normal’?”
So many of you keep asking about why we still have our Christmas Decorations up – The outdoor manger scene, the lights, the trees, the wreaths…
So many of you keep asking about our Easter Program; I reckon I better bring you up to speed.
Change!
“I ain’t never made but one grammacial errer in my life; and I corrected that ‘un as soon as I seen hit” – or so my friend, Frank Bell, used t…
Everybody who knows me (all three of you) knows that I love light and lights.
Politicians, public officials, and preachers know they’ll have little privacy when they begin their work; and their family history becomes a p…
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English Mountain Christian Church (166 Epley Road) will presents a concert of Christmas Songs by Sun-joo Oh, Lyric-Coloratura Soprano and Prof…
When Fred Marvin and Josephine Celeste moved to Newport in December, 1948; I was in the second grade. In a neat little bit of planning, Fred a…
In my short life of eighty years; and in my short ministry of fifty six years; I have heard of some pretty spectacular legal wrangling (otherw…
“Sha’alu Shalom Yerushalayim”; or as your English Bible translates Psalms 122:6: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” This is a very simple vers…
Ah, the sounds of spring; or summer; or fall; or – yes, even winter!
Most of my regular readers of this column know that I was not born right here in Newport; but I was raised right here in Newport – as a Methodist!
Since I haven’t worn a wristwatch in several years (something about being “too magnetic” or some crazy thing), I have to keep an almost consta…
I guess the most difficult part of this writing project is getting the ideas in the first place. You send me lots of good stuff over the party…
Hello everyone.
Ever catch yourself thinking about “those days?”
I know that has never happened to any of you dear and faithful readers out there in FiveMinuteVille; but, as the old man in the mountains alwa…
It is Tuesday Mid-Morning; and I am still rejoicing over some great Bible Study time that I have been able to have lately. It is wonderful to …
Some say potahtoe, some say potato; some say tomahtoe, some say tomato; and them that’s right say “tater” and “mater.”
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a home built. It cost considerably less than the car I am driving today (actually less than h…
A young lady responded to an invitation one Sunday; and told me: “I ain’t clean inside.”
Have you ever flown “First Class”?
Everywhere you go, people are laughing! Everything has to be funny or it simply will not “go over”; isn’t that true? Television comics will go…
Here’s another in our continuing saga of “Going Back To The Place” Columns for your reading (endurance) or (pleasure) – (pick one). I surely h…
Ok, all you FiveMinuteVillers, it’s time for yet another entry in Mr. Moto’s list of “Stuff and Things that Just Don’t Make Sense To Me.”
The LORD created a beautiful world; and put two beautiful people in it to get it started off right!
As I said last time, in the ministry, we preachers sometimes tie several sermons together under an overall theme of – well whatever: You know;…
