Remembering Prince Moore

Remembering Prince Moore

The old gray-haired Bapto-Appalachian-American preacher invoked the good name of  Preacher Prince Moore the other day. He is now in the great cloud of witnesses.  Prince Moore will always be one of my models for excellence in preaching. He was not a great orator. One...
What a Good Singer Can Teach a Preacher

What a Good Singer Can Teach a Preacher

The old gray-haired Bapto-Appalachian-American preacher just had a conversation on Facebook Messenger with a female ministry colleague I have known since very near the beginning of time. The subject at hand was a mutual friend who is, along with her pure sweet love...
By the Way | In Praise of Short Sermons

By the Way | In Praise of Short Sermons

Earlier this month, Pope Francis issued an advisory that homilies should be short, approximately eight minutes, “because after that time attention is lost and people fall asleep, and they are right,” he said. I couldn’t agree more. I was first introduced to the short...