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Today, I’m in Cleveland with 10 of our Louisiana pastors for ENGAGE 21, a cooperative initative for young leaders in our church. It is an important effort to engage leaders and to provide dialogue. Jason and Jeremy are here as well and that’s fun. The building had several hundred leaders from many [...]

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Been traveling a lot in recent weeks and this travel has placed me in quite a few airport security lines. I’m going to confess there is something that happens to me in these lines! In most all of my life, I’m humble, servant-minded and unstressed. However, the moment I get in line, [...]

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Wow! I’ve been blown away by the response to this year’s RePlenish 08. This guy did a fantastic job on Saturday AM wrapping the meeting with his talk on Godly Connections. Afterwards, we filled out a card to a friend who means a great deal to us. I was deeply moved [...]

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Louisiana’s oldest remaining ministers widow passed away this week. She was 103! Sister Webb was a very warm and engaging lady, even at her age. Kathy and I always enjoyed our visits to her home and the interest she took in us. She and her husband were pastors in Louisiana and their faithfulness [...]

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Day 1 was great…Tim Brown spoke to us on “Defeating Defeated Thinking”…Jeremy did a great job with the music and worship and the fun time event with Brian and Emily was really good–Congrats to Margaret and David Tidwell in the modified Newlywed Game. I attended Pat Wright’s workshop today “What kind of man do [...]

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Someone asked me yesterday what the most enjoyable part of my job was…without hesitation I said–training leaders. That’s why I’m so excited about this week and the upcoming RePlenish for our ministers and spouses. This is our second attempt at this as Kathy and I continue to look for ways to better serve our [...]

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A packed house of family and friends were present today at the funeral of Phillis Burress, wife of Bishop Paul Burress of Ferriday Church of God. Sister Burress died unexpectedly on Monday night after being discharged from the hospital where she had been the past four days with pneumonia. Along with Pastor Ricky Batchlor, [...]

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Well, the time has come when love is in the air…or should be! Thankfully, I’m not going to be standing in line with all the other LOSER husbands today looking for a last minute card with an animal figure on it saying “I love you like a hog loves slop!” No, I got [...]

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My friend, Phyllis Burress died on Monday night of this week. The phone call came about 10:30 pm and I was not at all prepared to accept the news of her passing. She was 66 and I really enjoyed knowing her. Her husband will miss her greatly and I prayed for him [...]

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Over the years, I have kept a large plastic water bottle in my room for loose change. Kathy and I both keep change in our cars and when I clean the cars (or have them cleaned) I empty that change into the bottle. Once every blue moon I empty it and put the [...]

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