Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.15.03 in Churches, Dudley, Personal, Tupelo
11:22 PM Didn’t get around to doing my shopping after all. Got tied up in church affairs almost all day. Maybe tomorrow. 11:21 PM Dennis Byrne exposes the absurdity of the bestselling Da Vinci Code. 10:26 AM Monday greetings to Vita Loredo, Wayne Benfield in Jacksonville, Florida, Bernie Schuck in Indiana, to Paul and Becky…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.12.03 in Churches, Internet/Blogging, Tupelo
10:05 PM Big renovation news I forgot to mention earlier: The permanent surface for the gym was delivered today. Right now it’s stacked in boxes right on the subfloor. The workers should begin installing it next week. 9:39 PM Fun time with the junior highers tonight. The girls were all dressed up and the guys were wearing s…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.24.03 in Churches, Personal, Preaching, Tupelo
10:44 PM More good news: A few minutes ago I came home from a meeting at church and Marlene told me that Nick and John Mark Edwards decided to drive home from Samford tonight instead of tomorrow afternoon. They left Birmingham about 9 PM so they should arrive in Oak Park by 7 AM. That put a smile on my face. When I called N…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.27.03 in Baseball, Churches
8:32 PM Marlene, Josh and I are watching the White Sox-Yankees game right now. But we’re also watching little bits of the Bears preseason game and also the Cubs-Cards game. A sports feast. After supper Josh asked if we had any more cookies like we had the other day. When Marlene said we didn’t have any more, I said, “Your…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.26.03 in Books, Churches, Current Events
9:31 PM Another excellent column by David Limbaugh on why Judge Roy Moore is both right and wrong. In my opinion, he correctly frames the issue when he asks, “Is the hill you want to die on?” For me, at the present time, the answer is no. He’s also quite correct when he says the problem is not an activist judiciary but …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.24.03 in Churches
8:41 PM No news on Dixie. Yesterday and today I rode my bike and found myself looking down every alley. Marlene said this AM, “I didn’t think I would miss her as much as I do.” Tomorrow we’re going to check with Animal Control in Oak Park. 8:32 PM Four wonderful services this AM. We baptized 12 people, Proclaim rocked t…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.17.03 in Biking, Churches
5:27 PM Here’s the Legacy Campaign prayer request for today: “Praise God that nothing is impossible with him (Luke 1:37).” Yesterday AM I met with a group of leaders for The Legacy Campaign. We toured the building, discussed the project in depth, and then gave the leaders a chance to make advance commitments to the camp…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.15.03 in Churches, Homosexuality, Personal
3:01 PM Just now the staff surprised me with a small party in the Dining Room in honor of my 14th anniversary. We had chocolate silk pie and told a few stories. Bob Boerman said he knew he was going to like me when, at an early pastoral staff meeting, I stuck a pencil in my ear—the eraser end—and said, “I just wanted to see what w…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.14.03 in Churches, Personal
6:00 PM News and notes … Just back from a 24.5 mile bike ride along the Prairie Path through Maywood, Bellwood, Hillside, through Elmhurst, Villa Park, and into Lombard. Pretty hot and humid—great biking weather… Came back and found that Nick and Mark had gone golfing at Columbus Park… . On Tuesday we leave to take Nick …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.12.03 in An Anchor for the Soul, Churches, Personal
7:49 PM Happy to report that 54,000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul were delivered to Oak Park last week and are now safely in storage. Just today we received a note from a retired Chicago firefighter who writes: I send a quarterly mailing to 85 retired Chicago firemen, mostly non-believers. I sometimes include a book in w…
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