Boone, NC was named after one of my favorite historical heroes, Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone was a brave frontiersman and trailblazer. In its original usage, a trailblazer was someone who marked a path so that others could follow. As a trailblazer, Boone helped mark passages throughout the eastern United States so that pioneers could safely travel westward. The way that a trailblazer accomplishes thi...  Read More

You’ve never been this way before One of the greatest adventures in my life came as a result of going down a road that I had never been before. When I was a kid, we drove out west to California and on the way we “accidently†visited the Petrified Forest in Arizona. We had never heard of this place, but we saw a sign and decided to check it out. When we arrived, it wasn’t a forest at all, but a dese...  Read More

Ripple Effects – The Negative Side The other Sunday when I preached on Joshua 2, “Ripple Effects”, I focused on the positive effects that Rahab’s life brought about for both her family and the world. The ripple effect of her life has lasted to this very day in the person of Jesus Christ. After the message, a member of our congregation spoke with me briefly and told me that I preached on the positive...  Read More

I wish to thank Kim Mayes for spearheading the Words for Wednesday Summer series and all the writers who contributed. I thoroughly enjoyed each post and deeply appreciate the break. -- Kevin Transitions Over the next couple of months on Sunday mornings, we will be taking a journey through the book of Joshua. For our Words for Wednesday each week, I would like to emphasize something from the chapter ...  Read More

Over the summer we have had guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today will be the last segment of our summer series and today’s guest author is Kim Mayes. Enjoy Cemetery Lessons My mom and I took a trip last week, just the two of us. We packed our things and headed west to the hills of East Tennessee, the place both of us will always call home. Our agenda was simple: to visit a couple of fam...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Kenny Olive. Enjoy Excuses I want to talk about making excuses—something each of us have probably done. I know I have. And it’s not a good thing to do. Benjamin Franklin said, “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” and Florence Nightingale, “I attribute my suc...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Sarah Knott. Enjoy. My Current Favorite Word I’m sure if someone asks you what your favorite Bible verse is you could list at least one, possibly two or three. We’ve all thought about our favorite verse or verses. Have you ever thought about your favorite word from the Bible in the original ...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Michael Jordan. Enjoy Stolen, or Given Away..? There is a popular Christian song out now with these lyrics: “I’m calling the angels down, I’m storming the gates of hell, Tell the devil he don’t own my soul, I’m taking back what the enemy stole”. As I was pondering those words, I was drawn t...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Debbie Clay. Enjoy Giving Thanks One of my bookmarks has a pretty painting on it. On the back it states, “Celebrating the season of gratitude.” This card was sent to me from our car insurance around Thanksgiving time. As I thought about the words “season of gratitude,” it implies that being...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Christy Olive. Enjoy Anchored “In Times Like These”…this was the title of a song my Daddy sang in Church many times when I was growing up. I can still hear him singing it to this day, even though he celebrated his Homegoing over 30 years ago. The song was written by Ruth Caye Jones in 1944....  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Todd Sorrell. Enjoy If We Can Keep Them Tomorrow is Independence Day when we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. But our current form of government came many years later when the Constitution was ratified by the States. Along that journe...  Read More

For the next several weeks, we will have guest authors for our Words for Wednesday. Today our guest author is Mikal Duncan. Enjoy The Power of Hope Have you ever heard of a “power triad”? A triad can be any group of three, a trio, like three notes in a musical chord. But a power triad distinguishes itself by its strength and effect. The most famous power triad is the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and H...  Read More