Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.3.12 in Personal
It happened almost 40 yeas ago. During my third year of seminary, I was invited to preach at a church in Oxford, Mississippi. The church at the time was without a pastor so I was asked to preach at both the morning and evening services. That morning I preached what I regarded as my “best” sermon, a message on the parable of the seed and…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.13.12 in Keep Believing Ministries, Personal, Sermons
One week ago the sermon email list went over the 10,000 mark for the first time. That’s a significant milestone that was 14 years in the making. I started sending out sermons by email in 1998 shortly after we returned from a trip to India. I started with about 20 names on my list, a handful of friends who wanted to read the sermon they heard …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.29.12 in Personal, Travel
Yesterday Pastor Dan Coffin told me that after I preached for him at Small Point Baptist Church this morning, he would treat us to a genuine Maine lobster feast. He started by going to the dock very early today and buying 16 lobsters that had been swimming in the ocean yesterday. Then he steamed them in a large pot on his back porch. When we (…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.31.11 in Biking, Personal, Tupelo
A few minutes ago I finished my final bike ride of 2011.My total for the year comes to 1625 miles, pushing my all-time miles ridden to 28449. Today I rode my usual route on the county road from Bissell Baptist Church over to the Natchez Trace. For the last two years they’ve been working on the extension that will bring Highway 6 all the way i…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.23.11 in Christmas, Personal
Here we are with Knox and Eli in their matching pajamas. It only took about ten tries to get this shot. Knox is 16 months old, Eli is 5 months old….
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.13.11 in Books, Personal
When a friend asked me recently what I’ve been reading, I didn’t have a quick answer because I had to go home and check my iPad. Basically I don’t read anything these days that isn’t in ebook format.Before I give my list, here are three caveats. First, this isn’t a complete list. Basically these are the books that made…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.28.11 in Dudley, Personal
“Like grabbing a dog by the ears, so is a bystander who gets involved in someone else’s quarrel” (Proverbs 26:17). Sometimes it’s better not to get involved.A while back someone wanted me to get involved in something (how’s that for a general statement?) that I just didn’t want to bother with. I did have some opi…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.26.11 in Personal
It’s hard to know what to say about your 59th birthday. What exactly does it represent? Does it have a deep meaning? After pondering the matter I have drawn a few tentative conclusions:1. I can’t stay up as late I could 20 years ago.2. You’re definitely not young when you are 59.3. I was going to say I run slower now but that&rsqu…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.23.11 in Churches, Personal, Preaching, Sermons, Travel
A few years ago–about eight years ago, I suppose–I received an email out of the blue from a man named H. B. Charles, Jr. who wrote to ask me a question about something I had written about preaching. I didn’t know him or the church he pastored, Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Through an email correspondence we b…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.17.11 in Current Events, Devotional, Marriage and the Family, Personal
Recently Pat Robertson made news when he declared that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s is justifiable because it is “a kind of death.” The simplest thing I can say is that he didn’t get that teaching from the Bible. The very concept of Christian marriage rests upon a vow to be faithful “in sickness and in health.&r…
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