Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.26.09 in Marriage and the Family, Personal
It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting in the lobby catching up on my email and other details. In about an hour our family gathers for a final breakfast and then we will go our separate ways. It has been a fine weekend in every way. Yesterday we got Dave and Laura Kate started on their marriage adventure with a beautiful ceremony in the st…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.24.09 in Personal
We have come to Rome, Georgia, a beautiful town about an hour northwest of Atlanta, nestled into the rolling hills that will become the Smoky Mountains up around Gatlinburg, further north into Tennessee and North Carolina. We’ve gathered for Dave McKee’s wedding. We have known Dave and his family for a long time, partly because they att…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.20.09 in Personal
This afternoon I made a trip to the lodge where my books have been stored since October 2005. The lodge once housed a Christian conference center that flourished for a few years in the early 80s. When my brother Alan bought the property, it had been vacant for six or seven years. We lived in a cabin on the property for 20 months. Now that we’…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.17.09 in Bible Bus, Devotional, Personal
It’s been over a month since my last Bible Bus update. In January I committed to reading the whole Bible book by book. I’m not following any particular plan, simply reading one book at a time from beginning to end. Since my last update I have read the following books: Leviticus, Joshua, Judges, Hosea, Psalms, Amos, 1 Corinthians, Coloss…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.11.09 in Bible Bus, Devotional, Personal
It’s been awhile since my last Bible Bus update. Since then I have finished reading through these books of the Bible:
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.6.09 in Personal
For me it started yesterday afternoon, when I realized that I had two more messages to give and then I could go home. There is always that moment on any trip when you realize the work is almost done, and if you just press forward and keep going, you’ll cross the finish line and be done with whatever it is you are doing. In my case that usuall…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.4.09 in Biking, Personal
Today I reached a milestone that took me about twelve years to reach. While I was riding my bike along Bissell Road on the way to the Natchez Trace, I realized that by the time I got back home, I would have ridden all the way around the world. If you figure the circumference of the world at 24,000 miles, then I entered this year needing 91 miles to…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.15.09 in Bible Bus, Bible Study, Bible Study Resources, Personal
During our get-organized campaign that started last week, Marlene uncovered this pin that we gave away in 2002 when the whole congregation took the challenge to “get on the Bible bus” and read the Bible all the way through. Every Sunday that year I began my sermon with the same question, “So how are you doing?” After the fir…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.13.09 in Personal
Last week I mentioned that we were in the throes of a massive housecleaning, reorganizing and downsizing project. The process continued over the weekend, and as of tonight we are almost finished. Already we have thrown away bags and bags of unneeded and unused clothes, books, and assorted paraphernalia from the last 35 years. Along the way we&rsquo…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.9.09 in Personal, Tupelo
This week we’ve been doing some major housecleaning that started when we decided it was time to get things organized. In our particular situation, there is really no demarcation between our home and the ministry because, as I like to tell people, the “world headquarters” of Keep Believing Ministries is in my office at home and in …
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