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I bet you sang in the choir, Bobby Tony ~~~ they are famous for chewing gum, writing notes, and distracting from what is going on at the Pulpit. They get elected to Deacon and "Deacon lite" takes place!!!
I had 2 choirs in different churches where I threatened to put motocycle mirrors on the Pulpit so I could see their antics for myself . . . I bet I am RIGHT, huh?? ![]()
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 2:31 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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A good article or sermon I consider as Group Counseling. That means: ask questions / give some perspective / leave the reader [listener] with thought-provoking questions.
So far most of you are "Gospel Lite" and wanting to be entertained --- over challenged to do better to be like Christ . . .Paul described it as "ready for milk and needing to move to more serious food for the spirit . . ." ![]()
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 5:33 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In case you are getting bored, Bobby Tony --- I have just submitted a follow-up article bringing the religious debates into 2015! It should be up this evening, good buddy.
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Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:41 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I again say YES. WE HAVE LOST OUR ABILITY.... and leave the comment arena for folks with debate skills. Good article.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 10:17 am
By: Ted McDonald
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We have been playing and here, again, is the significant question:
As America enters its 2nd century of the "Great Experiment in Democracy," have we lost our ability to be a union of imperfect humans immigrated here from all over the world with the dream of "freedom and justice for all?" ![]()
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 9:04 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Back to the New Wine theory. What ever prejudice I have does not affect or effect this high tech world. That is an over worked excuse for failure. No one is excited about the First Asian to fix a computer. Maybe the Old Wineskin is old low tech industries. Anyway. I give you the last word. I suggest a follow up article.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 7:25 am
By: Ted McDonald
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In recent months I have chatted with 2 good black folks who went north from Beaufort County and are now back home with a smile. They both said they enjoyed higher wages and buying a house they sold for way more than the cost of their new house here.
None of us miss the heavy traffic of cities and value the down home outlook in Beaufort County sans drugs and crime taking away the joy of living in any big city these days. I picked up the history of the Noonday Baptist Church, dating back to 1833, and the frontier days of Cobb County. One of them migrated to near Tyler, TX, and named his crossroad "Noonday" after his former home. Our Cobb Noonday was from the creek you had best reach by buggy by noon or you were spending the night in the wilderness surrounded by wildlife and Cherokee Indians! Most old towns and roads have something to do with their frontier days. For example, The Old Post Road exiting from Bath was the first trail used to carry the mail and stagecoach 300 years ago. A great study in history is to take the most ancient map you can find and superimpose it over the current one! One of the great road names of Atlanta is the Roswell Road / Atlanta Highway. Going toward Roswell, it has one name and the return has the second name. In typical Atlanta frontier confusion --- as it has become an area of 8 million +, the roads follow old indian trails or that laid out by a drunk farmer's mule going home. They are crooked / overcrowded / and I don't miss that aspect of Hotlanta at all! ![]()
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 7:05 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I need to write an article about 1870 when the South encouraged European Immigrants to come South to change the population from 60 per cent White to 70 per cent. Cullman, Al was a German town. Forsythe Ga (not county) was almost an entire regiment of Yankee soldiers invited. New folks did not stay in NYC very long.
The great migration was 5 million Blacks leaving the South for the factories in the Mid-West in 1946. The mystery is why would any American stays in a State they do not like.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 6:38 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I have read the history on immigration and do not see much change from NYC taking in massive numbers from Ireland, Germany, the Orient, and all over the world. The major difference between then and now is expansion to Mexico, the Middle East, and India to the Far East into all major cities in this country.
The prejudice towards blacks in the South and Mexicans in the SW, along with orientals on the West Coast is all still the same. Established Americans, whether 50 years ago or the present still want to find cheap labor and use them for profit in production and rentals. Despite the use and abuse, they find a way to succeed in the Land of the Free. . . ![]() My Scarborough ancestors immigrated from north of London to the VA/NC border of Coastal America. They then to seek a climate similar to their homeland each time. We have ancestral information indicating a migration through NC and settling in Madison County (Athens) Ga. Even in Atlanta, Scarborough is a minority! ![]()
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 6:19 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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We have lost our ability to be a Union because too many undocumented and legal immigrants with 3rd world preference have overwhelmed the system. Maybe in 50 years the 2nd generations will speak English and become Christians but for now they are in no rush to modify.
Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:47 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Did the Greek impress you, Ted???
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Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:36 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Answer: Yes. I do not comment on religious articles but this is a mix of autobiography and a reference to a Bible verse with Greek translation.
Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:13 am
By: Ted McDonald
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As America enters its 2nd century of the "Great Experiment in Democracy," have we lost our ability to be a union of imperfect humans immigrated here from all over the world with the dream of "freedom and justice for all?"
Who will take the ball and start our discussion of a most important thing . . . ![]()
Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 8:51 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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