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She’s Got Talent . . . Sayra Comes By It Honest

Recently Sayra, Rusty’s daughter, participated in the Southmoore High School Talent Contest. Rusty is our Music Minister at Snow Hill. Talented. He has an incredible tenor voice and a range to match. Sayra participates each week as part of our Worship Team. She’s got talent. Enjoy.

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“Don’t Be Like Jesus” – Inverting WWJD (Pt. 2)

Thoughts about Evangelicals and Election 2012 prompted my recent feature column for the Tuttle Times. Over the span of about a month I responded to a series of interview requests on the subject of Election 2012. First, I responded to email questions for a piece in The Oklahoma Continue reading

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“Don’t Be Like Jesus” – Inverting WWJD (Pt. 1)

If following the Way of Jesus was as simple as answering the question, “What would Jesus do,” one would think we could rehab “Christian” as a hope-filled designation. My friend Frank offered some thoughts on the American Presidency. He referenced a Facebook/Twitter incident involving Russell Moore who noted … Continue reading

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Sermons, North Korea, and Snow Hill

Preaching comparisons represent a hazard of the vocation. Finding your preaching voice can take time. Years in fact. Patient congregations allow for the pretentious preaching. By that I mean pretending to preach like [insert the young preacher’s icon]. Over time it is too exhausting unless of course one opts … Continue reading

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Impeaching the Witness or, The Genealogy of Convictions

I am no lawyer. Nor the son of a lawyer. Fred over at Slactivst wrote,

By the time of the 1988 elections, everyone in American evangelicalism was wholly opposed to legal abortion and everyone in American evangelicalism was pretending that this had always been the case.

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