100,000 Visitors!
I was going to give this $100,000 dollar bill away to the 100,000th visitor to my website.  However, there was just one problem.  I didn’t know the identity of the 100,000th visitor any more than I knew whose picture was on the $100,000th dollar bill.  But whoever the 100,000th visitor was, and whoever all the other 99,999 visitors were, I want to thank you! It was in January of 2008 that I decided to create my own website and offer some of my thoughts for anyone else out there who

2012: End of the World?
This past weekend, Sony released Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm that is scheduled to take place in 2012. With the release of this movie (which I have not seen, nor will see due to the language) we will be hearing more and more about speculations of 2012 being the end of the world. As you may or may not know, the ancient Mayans predicted that the world would come to an end on December 21, 2012. The Mayans believed that the world would last through five cycles consisting of

Subnormal, Normal, & Abnormal
For some time now, I have been contemplating a phenomenon that I, through observation, could see existed, but I didn’t quite know how to verbalize. However, I think the words have finally come to me. I have observed that when the subnormal becomes normal, then what is normal becomes abnormal. I’ve reached this conclusion after watching and hearing biblical concepts and spiritual people ridiculed as being “weird,” “radical,&#

Even In Mayberry
Yesterday morning I was reading headline news from across the nation and one headline in particular grabbed my attention.  It read, “Man Charged With Killing 4 In Mayberry Model Town.” On Sunday,  November 1, 2009 four men were murdered in the small town of Mt. Airy, North Carolina.  For those of you who are not fans of the Andy Griffith Show, you may not know that Mt. Airy is the hometown of Andy Griffith and served as the model and the inspiration for the fi

West Virginia School of Preaching
This past week, I spoke on the West Virginia School of Preaching lectureship in Moundsville, WV. The WVSOP graduated it’s first class in 1996 and since then has graduated around 70 young men. This year’s lectureship was special to me because they were honoring my mom and dad for their service in the Ohio Valley.  Dad has spent his entire life preaching in northern West Virginia.  While he has only been located in four cities (Fairmont, Wellsburg, Weirto