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The Church Ladies, or Into the Jail We Go
Every Monday night at 5:00 p.m., a group of female prisoners are called out of their cells by the sheriff’s deputies. They are marched off to a room at the Tuscaloosa County (Alabama) Jail, usually reserved for lawyers meeting with their clients. Instead, three friends who serve as “ministers” to the ladies arrive at the […]
Is Bigger Always Better?
April 13, 2018
Maybe, maybe not. I write as a 5’8” male, decidedly short in our world of tall people. Napoleon Bonaparte, however, strode over much of Europe in the early nineteenth century and he was a shrimp. I recently read an article in an online Christian magazine on small versus big churches. What can small churches offer […]
Learning Life Lessons While in Jail
July 13, 2017
Now, before you jump to conclusions, I’m not in jail, confined or committed or sentenced. I go into the Tuscaloosa County Jail every Tuesday night with a bunch of Christian men and women to speak and pray with the prisoners about our faith. We are, I guess, evangelizers and witnesses in “church talk.” Going into […]
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- 1 John 2:1 September 25, 2023“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”
April 8, 2023
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