Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.21.07 in Personal
6:31 PM I just found a recipe for Chile Chocolate Almond Cookies. Seems like a strange taste combination. If anyone tries this recipe, let me know how it goes.5:47 PM Earlier today we received this encouraging email from someone in Hawaii: “I found your website after I Googled for writings about Proverbs 21:31. Your October …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.18.07 in Personal, Travel
I just posted our 2008 travel schedule as we have it so far. Other events will be added later. Next year we will be making a number of first-time visits, including to Bolivia, Czech Republic, Peru, and to Prince Edward Island, Canada. In February we will be in China visiting Josh and Leah. The trip to Peru is particularly e …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.17.07 in Biking, Personal
Several months ago I received a nice note from my good friend Brian Choate. He and his wife Melodi relocated from Chicago to Las Vegas. Brian does a lot of street evangelism on the Strip, talking to anyone who will listen. When he learned that I like to ride my bike, he offered to send me a biking jersey from the Internatio …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.11.07 in Chicago, Personal, Tupelo
I’m writing this note to our many friends in Chicago and throughout the Midwest who are suffering through a very difficult weather situation. Stay safe, stay warm, and stay inside. What else can you do?Here in Tupelo the temperature right now is 72 with bright, sunny skies. I think we’re going to cancel school s …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.8.07 in Personal
Tonight we had a wonderful meal at the Yocona River Inn, an amazing restaurant on a country road about six miles outside of Oxford. During the football season, you can hardly get in on the weekends. Tonight we were the third group in the restaurant. When the meal was served, I prayed a prayer asking God’s blessing on …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.8.07 in Personal
Today Mark celebrates his 26th birthday. Back in 1981 I was pastoring Redeemer Covenant Church in Downey, California (a Los Angeles suburb). Mark was born in nearby Whittier. Two years later we moved to Garland, Texas (a Dallas suburb) where I became the pastor of Northeast Bible Church. Soon thereafter we enrolled Mark in …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.27.07 in Personal
Last February I preached at a church in the Chicago area and afterward a group of friends came for lunch. Don and Nancy Hoy came late, and when they came in, Don shook my hand and Nancy hugged Marlene and me and said how good it was to see us again. But really it was the other way around. How good it was to see her and Don …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.24.07 in Personal
Just for fun, take this quiz to discover What American Accent Do You Have? Here are my results:What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Midland”You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.21.07 in Personal
On the night that I resigned as pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park in September 2005, God spoke to Tim and Elsa McKee. I didn’t know it at the time, but in retrospect it is clear that God spoke to them as clearly as he ever spoke to anyone. I knew nothing about it because our hearts were filled with emotion …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.8.07 in Current Events, Internet/Blogging, Personal
This morning I decided to go to Panera Bread to pick up some bagels for breakfast. I ended up coming back with bagels plus a few other goodies, enough for maybe 8 people, certainly more than Marlene and me and Dave and Lynette. But that’s part of the fun. You start looking at the display case and you end up buying mor …
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