Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.12.08 in Keep Believing Ministries, Personal
I am writing this note from the basement of Dave and Lynette Hoy’s home in Elmhurst, a western suburb of Chicago. We arrived here on Thursday afternoon in record time—10 hours and 15 minutes. The boys say they can make it in nine hours, but I can’t see how they do it. We ran into some serious rain in southern I …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.10.08 in Personal
I just heard on the radio that today is National Siblings Day. In this spirit of this noble occasion, here is a picture of the four Pritchard brothers, taken in 2003 at my brother Andy’s home in Florence, Alabama. Left to right, that’s Ron, Alan, Ray, Andy. Ron lives in Little Rock, AR, Alan and I live in Tupelo …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.9.08 in Personal
A few notes, quickly, before going to bed for a few hours . . . 1) After working on my taxes all day, I remembered why I had put it off as long as possible.2) We are still having trouble getting the sermon email delivered. A few weeks ago I mentioned that we were having trouble with AOL treating them as spam and blocking th …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.7.08 in Personal, Travel
Early Thursday morning—around 5 AM—we leave for Chicago. We are eating dinner that night with friends in Chicago, on Friday we have a home meeting in Oak Park, on Saturday we have a board meeting and a meeting for volunteers who are helping us “optimize” the sermons on the Keep believing website, on Sunday I’m preac …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.31.08 in Personal
{{{ALIGN:right;THUMBNAILWIDTH:220;CAPTION:John Adams;}}}Scattershooting here and there . . .Have you been watching the John Adams miniseries on HBO? Marlene and I watched the first two episodes and were hooked. We thought last night’s fourth episode was terrific.Here’s a quote from John Adams that seems very fit …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.20.08 in Dudley, Personal
{{{ALIGN:right;THUMBNAILWIDTH:290;CAPTION:Gary makes himself comfortable;}}}As I was getting dressed early this morning, I heard a scratching at the bedroom door. I knew instinctively that it was Gary, one of our two fine basset hounds. Whenever I get up, no matter how early, Gary knows it because he has finely-tuned hearin …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.14.08 in Personal
We are home again after a whirlwind trip to New York where we had a wonderful time with the students at Word of Life Bible Institute. It’s always fun to teach there, but this year’s class seemed unusually attentive and extremely receptive. The Lord seemed to create a good connection. Part of it may stem from the …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.9.08 in Personal
I am writing these words on Sunday night at the end of a stressful weekend. On Friday night Vanessa was in an accident when another driver suddenly swerved into her lane and hit her car head-on. It was snowing in Tupelo (a rare occurrence), the roads were slick, and visibility was poor. The person who hit her was driving an …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.13.08 in Personal
Dr. Charles Ryrie is teaching eschatology (the doctrine of Last Things) to the students at Word of Life Bible Institute in Florida this week. When he came in for dinner on Monday night, Marlene and I got to meet him. During my days at Dallas Seminary, he was one of the most popular professors. Back then he taught Senior The …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.9.08 in Personal, Travel, Word of Life
At the moment it is 5:36 AM and I am (mostly) wide awake. In 24 minutes we leave for the Tupelo airport where we will fly to Memphis and then on to Tampa for a week of ministry at Word of Life Florida in Hudson, about 40 minutes north of Tampa. I have lost track of how many times we’ve made this trip, but I know I&rsq …
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