"We had to get up in the morning at at 10 o'clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed, kill raccoons and o'possum for the morning stew, swim across piranha-infested rivers for exercise, hold targets for the other boys' rifle practice, twenty-six hours a day, week in, week out -- and when we got back our scoutmaster would kill us and dance on our graves singing hallelujah."And you try to tell the young Scouts today that, and they don't believe you.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Are you tougher than a Boy Scout?
We are not blind, are we? Well . . .
The Gospel passage for today is the first 14 verses of the Gospel of John. It is a long passage so rather than include it it here, I offer t...
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I've just returned from three days of the Bishop's Convocation of the Tennessee and Memphis Conferences of the United Methodist Chur...
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give . Luke 12.13-21 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell ...