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Governor Talmadge

Governor Talmadge* (whose not very good portrait hangs over the entrance) used to say in early days that he noticed when people in Georgia retire, they often go to live in Florida — thus raising the I.Q. in both states.  That wasn’t very nice, was it? But I tell you, we live in a society that...

Up a Tree

Every time I get on the platform I have to tell that marvelous story of Charles Spurgeon, the nineteen century cigar-smoking Baptist in England. Spurgeon got so big, they built a church around him. He grew bigger and bigger; they built a theological school around him. He was quite sure that the best member...

A Biblical People

I’m very much bothered by the fact that people forget so readily that the Old Testament was the Bible of Jesus and the early Church. I have to repeat ad nauseam that Jesus of Nazareth never called for any written material beyond the Old Testament. Now, that’s not my way of saying, “Let’s fire all of...

Being Human

I want to be one of those people who realizes that being human is a legitimate category. I don’t want to turn Jesus into a second God. I’ve already got a perfectly good one. I want Jesus to be what God intended him to be: a mature person – a fulfillment of the kind person whom God wants us all to be....

The Preacher as Artist

I come primarily as an Old Testament teacher who these last couple of terms has been cornered by a Dean and Associate Dean to teach a course in expository preaching. Why I let it happen, I do not know! Save that I’ve enjoyed it. While I’m not going to this hour talk about preaching, I would like to say a...

One Foot in the Grave

I went to a wedding and the big question was, “Is the bride coming?” We were twenty-five minutes into the service and she hadn’t shown. That’s one of the ways in which they keep the clergy twingeing and alive!  I peeked across Max Miller, the organist, to see whether the bride’s mother was on the...

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