Recently, I was touched by a Facebook post from one of our Haywood Baptist pastors, Tracy Smith. He was speaking of the discouragement he was feeling as a pastor of a smaller congregation. I got the feeling that he felt isolated and forgotten. All pastors struggle. Been there, done that. For most of 50 years, I have pastored churches—in the country and in the city, both small and large. Each faced challenges and presented opportunities. Sometimes, I was ready to quit. A few t

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” (Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭35‬ ‭NKJV‬‬) The infidel Voltaire once impudently boasted that, “Fifty years from now the world will hear no more of the Bible.” How ironic that on the day the British Museum paid over $500,000 for a manuscript of the Bible, one could purchase a first edition of Voltaire’s works in Paris for about eight cents! I doubt many of you have read (or even heard of) Voltaire, but the Bible

"April showers bring May flowers." So the old saying goes. The problem is that we may expect few flowers at this point for a lack of rain. We sorely need it. We ought to pray for it. Scripture warns us that one way God gets a wicked nation's attention is by turning off heaven's faucet. Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, lest the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that