All the Way!
Sometimes,
I feel just like Waffle House hash browns...
...scattere ... 28 Feb 2013 God said...!
Dear Preacher,
I have a thing or two to say to you.
In church Sunda ... 12 Feb 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kxfq_mysyg
The idea that anything anybody ever does is ... 2 Feb 2013 A Killer Career
Last night, NFL pundits celebrated the illustrious career of one of th ... 13 Jan 2013
It's (not) the end of the world!
I was going to give an end of the world address before ... 24 Dec 2012 Mom and me
The life of a catastrophe adjuster is uncertain. One day, you can be up to ... 27 Oct 2012
Let's talk about Jesus and American politics.
What would Jesus do?
Would Jesus v ... 25 Oct 2012 Planning your life is easy. Living your plan is not.
“We must be willing to let go of the ... 23 Oct 2012 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven...A time to gain, A ... 30 Sep 2012 It All Began With a Lie
Rockin' my leisure suit
Today I turned 51.
And that is the ... 28 Sep 2012 the signs of change
This morning at work, I was given a stark reminder of how quickly ... 25 Aug 2012 With the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, America ushered in the era of political correct ... 16 Aug 2012 Can you relate?
Proverbs 27 is one of those subsets of Solomon's proverbs that contain ... 6 Aug 2012
I recently welcomed to my cubicle a new inhabitant. I have now served as cube ma ... 27 Jul 2012 The Dark Night Rises
The Dark Night Rises
James Holmes, the 24 year old mass murderer, ... 21 Jul 2012 A God-given smile
Holly Strother proves that His strength is perfect
In 1983, my wife D ... 18 Jul 2012 I ain't never been nowhere
I didn't go to get there
I ain't never done a thing
I ... 8 Jul 2012 David StrotherMarch, 20, 1940 - March 28, 1991
A few days ago, my uncle Troy Henager t ... 17 Jun 2012
Love is not a feeling
but nothing feels better than to love
and be loved
... 7 Jun 2012
Have you ever been peppered by the well-meaning "old adage" as a means of getting you ou ... 3 Jun 2012 It is the habit—and the prerogative— of those of us with silver in our hair to reminisce, ... 22 May 2012 2-4-23-38-46, Mega Ball 23.
If your Mega Millions ticket sported that combination last ... 31 Mar 2012
Lesser Lights | An Original Poem
God bless the lesser lights:Those lives lived on a sm ... 21 Mar 2012 Years ago, when I was a young pastor in California, some well-meaning chowderhead gave me ... 19 Feb 2012 What will you do when standing up means standing out?
It is easy to talk tough until it ... 8 Feb 2012 I was speaking with a Christian friend yesterday.
She said, "I think I am such a disapp ... 27 Jan 2012 Susanna Kim of ABC News has written a sad, sorry story about former NFL sensation Terrell ... 21 Jan 2012 I don't miss you when we're apart.
I am just as well without you.
I don't need your ... 2 Jan 2012 Smell that? It's the freshy fresh freshness of a brand new year.
Happy New Year, everyo ... 1 Jan 2012 Seven months and counting. That is how long I have been away from home now, working in Mob ... 26 Dec 2011 Dateline: Mobile, Alabama, Thanksgiving Day, 2011
And so it was in my fiftieth year, I ... 24 Nov 2011 I do not choose this road I take;It chooses me by the choices I make.~Yours Truly
This mo ... 19 Nov 2011 Almost is the bitterest pill of all.
Just ask the Texas Rangers.
If the Rangers fail ... 28 Oct 2011 I am in a McDonald's...in a mall...in Mobile, Alabama.
A girl with vacant eyes waits ra ... 18 Oct 2011 We interrupt regularly-scheduled programming to call BS on a few business items of local a ... 15 Oct 2011 "Will you carry on, sir?"
I am standing at the American Airlines ticket counter in Mobi ... 12 Oct 2011 Listen up, kids! A half century goes by faster than you think.
One minute, you're doing ... 28 Sep 2011 One silent momentA thing so smallTo offer thoseWhose loss was all. One wordless prayerOne ... 11 Sep 2011 Once upon a time (this morning), in a land far, far away (Mobile, Alabama), a handsome you ... 17 Aug 2011 President Obama said that Congress needs to get busy serving the American people, rather t ... 16 Aug 2011
See, Freedom Fighter
Your strength ignitor
There is no one else beside her
Se ... 4 Jul 2011 To Ashley:
Your birth did more than make me a dad: It made me a man. For the first time ... 19 Jun 2011
Come See About Me
I’m a fatherless child
‘Cause my Daddy’s gone;
I’m a widowed wo ... 30 Jan 2011
“Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worr ... 30 Dec 2010 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes a ... 25 Dec 2010
I have a few things to say and one has little to do with the other. Let randomness r ... 9 Dec 2010 —Just Released!—
A Month of Sundays
31 Devotionals for Making Every Day the Lord’s Day
... 6 Dec 2010 The kid in me has always loved a limerick. And why not? What's not to like? The cadence is ... 13 Nov 2010 I was thinking about Dad this morning and singing a song he often sang, just out of the bl ... 12 Nov 2010 This being the Thanksgiving season —shouldn't thanksgiving always be in season? — I though ... 12 Nov 2010 Before we begin, let's get a working definition of a Haiku Poem. Here is the best one I fo ... 7 Nov 2010
If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He cannot deny Himself.
2 Tim. 2:13 (NKJV ... 7 Nov 2010
MSNBC fired Keith Olbermann for making financial contributions to democratic political ... 6 Nov 2010 Twas the night after Halloween and all through the stands Not a soul was silent, not one s ... 2 Nov 2010 The Texas Rangers are— can you believe it?— but one win away from their first-ever trip to ... 20 Oct 2010
It isn't like they are baseball neophytes. They aren't a bunch of nobodies with no his ... 14 Oct 2010
Stupidity amazes me. I can stare dumbfounded, slack-jawed and wide-eyed at it for hour ... 6 Oct 2010
The kinder, gentler Christians all berate "pastor" Terry Jones for misrepresenting Chr ... 10 Sep 2010 I was perusing the news on the Internet this morning when I saw this headline: Seven Steps ... 8 Sep 2010 Yesterday was nice.
Donya and I spent the day with her parents and her sister (and Jimb ... 7 Sep 2010 You can breathe again, America. Your King, LeBron James, has finally revealed where he wil ... 11 Jul 2010 I haven't ranted in awhile...
What exactly constitutes news? The local Fox channel lead ... 25 Jun 2010
When it comes to dads, I have been doubly blessed.
First, there is the Dad I had bu ... 20 Jun 2010 I remember when I was a boy and hung on every word my Dad said as though it were an edict ... 3 Jun 2010 Call it a funk. Call it a dry spell. Call it a lack of inspiration. Call it what you will. ... 31 May 2010 If everyone knew what a few of us do, April 5 would be a national holiday. We would call i ... 6 Apr 2010 Communion, or the Lord's Supper, has always been a holy and solemn event to me, thanks lar ... 2 Apr 2010 Eatin' rainbow stew in a silver spoon,
Underneath that sky of blue.
We'll all be drinkin ... 29 Mar 2010
Here I am, stuck in Philadelphia...literally. Another Nor'Easter has blown in with a v ... 26 Feb 2010
Let me begin by saying I dislike Valentine's Day and always have. I think an act of lo ... 14 Feb 2010 Say it isn't so, Sarah. Please tell me you are not turning the Political Correctness canno ... 10 Feb 2010 A week or so ago, I received an email from the Editor-in-Chief of an Internet sports site ... 7 Feb 2010 Apparently, I am in danger of losing my membership in the Eternal Optimists Club due to my ... 5 Feb 2010 Disclaimer: If you are a Christian weak in the faith or easily swayed by the brutal honest ... 3 Feb 2010 (Part Four of a four-part series.)
Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment...
If the ... 31 Jan 2010 Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment...
Even when a fool walks along the way, He la ... 24 Jan 2010 Dead flies can make even perfume stink.
In the same way, a little foolishness can spoil w ... 17 Jan 2010
It is not whether you sin or use; it's how you play the game.
Sinners and users, wi ... 12 Jan 2010 Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does ... 10 Jan 2010
Just when you think your life is a dichotomy...Just when you think that, on the one ha ... 3 Jan 2010
One of the annoyances on FaceBook and Twitter and other places where people put their ... 31 Dec 2009
Dateline: Somewhere in East Texas, December 10, 2009 The AP, UPI, and Rooters (Arkansa ... 10 Dec 2009
I am thankful...
For sorrows that pass me by
For the cleansing of a simple sigh
For ... 24 Nov 2009
Towns in these parts have international names. There is Paris, Detroit, Bogata, New Bost ... 19 Nov 2009 But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD ... 15 Nov 2009 Galatians 6:2,5 (NKJV)
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ... ... 8 Nov 2009 Listen up, kids. Dr. Love is in the house. I am here to give you the real scoop on this th ... 3 Nov 2009 My dad once said to me, "Son, if they were to open up your head and examine your brain, th ... 2 Nov 2009 There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; And one who makes himself poor, yet ... 31 Oct 2009
Tossing about in the bed last night, chasing the elusive slumber I so desperately soug ... 27 Oct 2009 (Reprinted from 2003)
Do you remember the Chevrolet Tahoe commercials from a few years ag ... 18 Oct 2009 If love is what I get from You
Then you can bet I’ll give it too
‘Cause all I really ... 2 Oct 2009 The more I observe life and the lives of others and - when I am brave enough for self-obse ... 14 Sep 2009 What
Did you think
I would think
At this moment?
That's
What I th ... 13 Sep 2009 The Devil’s in the Details
At least that’s what they say
I don’t mind
I’m the kind
Who ... 8 Sep 2009 Imagine the One Who spoke worlds into existence
Mocked by His own creation.
Imagined ... 7 Sep 2009 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was aroused ... 3 Sep 2009 The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come bu ... 31 Aug 2009 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high pri ... 30 Aug 2009 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the wor ... 23 Aug 2009 What is this shield of faith the Apostle Paul talks about?
Does it work?
HOW does it ... 21 Aug 2009 What does a Roman cross stabbed into the ground outside the gates of Jerusalem more than t ... 20 Aug 2009
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me...and to you...and to God! ... 19 Aug 2009 A sermon based on Isaiah 40...but as relevant as if it appeared on an Internet news source ... 19 Aug 2009
This sermon is from the archives of FirstNetChurch.com, a now-defunct site I oversaw a c ... 19 Aug 2009 ...looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set ... 16 Aug 2009 Somewhere the Night | D. Gene Strother
Somewhere the Night
Is still and quiet
... 15 Aug 2009 ¶ OK, Net typists, time for a few observations from the grumpy Gramps:
Decide whether ... 6 Aug 2009 Maybe it is my age. Maybe it is my personality. Maybe it is a phase. Whatever it is, I kee ... 2 Aug 2009 So, I am checking FaceBook the other day and I see the note that one of my friends had bec ... 31 Jul 2009
I have just returned from a family gathering on my mother's side. My Aunt Nelda and Un ... 28 Jul 2009
I am going to go ahead and make a snap judgment here and say that men in authority oug ... 24 Jul 2009 There is a nagging pain inside me today.
Yesterday, it finally happened. We loaded up h ... 17 Jul 2009 Remember when K-Mart was cool and you had never heard or thought of the word Wal-Mart?
... 6 Jul 2009 Awhile ago, Joni Eareckson Tada featured Holly on her Joni and Friends television program. ... 29 Jun 2009 Mr. Summer:
I am all done with you. You may be dismissed. Please return to the hellacio ... 28 Jun 2009 Yesterday marked the nineteenth Father's Day since my Dad took a jarring, premature detour ... 22 Jun 2009 What I do not overvalue I underestimate.
I put that as my Facebook status this morning ... 15 Jun 2009 Quirky is cool. Donya and I visited Gerty's, a little shop in one of those antique mall ty ... 9 Jun 2009
Twenty-nine.
It is not a very sexy number, is it? Perhaps its only distinction is t ... 7 Jun 2009 Blackie Sherrod, One of my favorite old-time newspaper columnists, wrote a column of rando ... 3 Jun 2009 Now that I am comfortably settled back into my little nook (or cranny, if you will), I fin ... 1 Jun 2009 I never had a son. It wasn't for lack of trying. Three times I stepped to the plate. Three ... 23 May 2009 You have seen the bumper stickers and t-shirts declaring, "The worst day fishing is better ... 20 May 2009 The Bible has a great deal to say about pride...and none of it is good. Over and over agai ... 18 May 2009 Most people, I think, readily affirm that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I su ... 14 May 2009 Here are some observations from my first week in Georgia:
The word "Georgia" has no "r ... 23 Apr 2009 Having lived for seven eventful, fun-filled, wonderful years in California, I have always ... 18 Apr 2009 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man,
and he will i ... 17 Apr 2009 My darling, you are beautiful!
Oh, you are beautiful,
and your eyes are like doves.
S o ... 16 Apr 2009 When I was a middle school teacher (which is roughly tantamount to being a riverboat capta ... 13 Apr 2009 "And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they saidunto them, Why ... 12 Apr 2009
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