Today (March 18) is my 72nd Birthday. If life was a metaphorical round of golf, and if the life actuarial tables are accurate, I am now standing on the 15th Tee…
Read moreMarch 18, 2023 | Happy Birthday from the 15th Tee
Arnold Palmer in the 1960s
March 8, 2023 | Asbury Revival (Part Three)
“Who has believed our message? To whom will the Lord reveal his saving power?” (Isaiah 53:1 NLT)…
Read moreMarch 3, 2023 | Asbury Revival (Part Two)
“For these rules were only shadows of the real thing, which is Christ himself.” Colossians 2:17 NLT…
Read moreFebruary 27, 2023 | Asbury Revival (Part One)
“The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation.” Isaiah 60:22…
Read moreJanuary 31, 2023 | 100 Holes of Heaven
It was 44 degrees when I teed off in Loxley, Alabama to play 100 holes of real golf (putt out, keep score, etc.) in one day, all for a good cause, The Second Tee…
Read moreJanuary 19, 2023 | The Nonsense of Stephen Hawking: "Higher Than the Heavens"
“For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens…Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.” (Psalm 108:4-5, words from King David written approximately 3,000 years ago).
Go to the internet or the history books (if there is such a thing in 2023), and you will find the name of Stephen Hawking. He was widely considered the greatest scientist of his generation. There is much to admire…
Read moreJanuary 12, 2023 | Chattanooga Choo-Choo
In 1999, I was speaking to a CBMC crowd in St Louis…
Read moreDecember 31, 2022 | Can a Man be Pregnant?
No Christmas or New Year’s letter was planned for 2022, but I just have to share a present we received on Christmas Day…
Read moreDecember 28, 2022 | John Philpot and 1555: "Who is that man?"
QUEEN BLOODY MARY BURNED HUNDREDS AT THE STAKE IN THE 1500’s
In about 2002, my mother Virginia’s 88-year-old mind was moving toward dementia…
Read moreDecember 20, 2022 | Jim and Andy- "What would happen if I just decided to be Jesus?
JIM CARREY AND ANDY KAUFMANN
Most of my stories are about people I actually know. But like all of us, some stories from media are just too good to ignore. Such was the case with a recent Netflix documentary about actor/comedian Jim Carrey…
Read moreDecember 4, 2022 | "Your friend, in Christ, Marcus."
March 18, 2006 was my 55th birthday. I celebrated at Sonny’s BBQ with a male prostitute…
Read moreNovember 25, 2022 | Mr. Wisdom
Today's story is from the Thanjam Old Age Home for Men in South India…
Read moreNovember 7, 2022 | Ernest T. Bass - "I just wanted me a uniform."
Every great sermon should include a good story from the Andy Griffith Show…
Read moreOctober 25, 2022 | Night and Day - The Ben Decker Story
This picture is not an award-winning photo…
Read moreOctober 18, 2022 | Moonwalker, Methodist, Muslim
Without a doubt, Charlie Duke is the absolute Number One most impressive man I have ever met…
Read moreOctober 04, 2022 | Raji and John
Many of my life changing moments have come in India, a nation which breeds spiritual forces, both good and bad…
Read moreSeptember 13, 2022 | LIV or LIVE?
You will need to be a golfer to understand everything I am about to say…
Read moreAugust 20, 2022 | It's a Small World
In the summer of 1951, Billy and Doris Davis got on a ship in NY City with three young children and headed for Brussels, Belgium…
Read moreAugust 10, 2022 | Oberammergau
I write this from an airport - headed home from Scotland with a smiling wife after 46 days of Euro adventure…
Read moreJuly 25, 2022 | Fisherman's Hall
Sue and I were on a seaside walk in 2018 in the Scottish fishing village of Brora when we noticed a beautiful tiny church building…
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