I was driving to our daughter’s new residence after a year of Covid isolation and realized I needed to refresh my memory of how to get there from I-65. The last time I’d been to their home, it had been by way of US Hwy 31 and State Route 280. So I called her to...
Today’s date “11/11”. (CBB 11/11/25) I remember a Sunday morning when a young grade school friend walked into my church office and noticed the digital clock on my desk showed 11:11 as the time (which it does twice daily!) He exclaimed, “Quick, make a wish!” I asked...
)CBByrd 3/19/2022). Even in the wilderness, darkness or midst of battle…… “It’s not a dead end if God took you there for a purpose.” Character in movie “Unconditional” If you find yourself in any such place, God’s redemptive power...
After attending Seedbed’s New Room Leaders Gathering in February, I realized that using the language of “personal surrender” had worn thin with me in talking to adult discipleship students….. The language of “consecration” of self (as we...
From Ezekiel 36 “9For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. 10 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will fill you with...
Today I drove from Eufaula, AL (in Barbour County, where I was born and where I visited a cousin this afternoon) to Montgomery to spend the night with my sister. In rural Barbour County, near Midway, I passed an historic marker that reminded me of an election...
