August 12, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Monday, August 12

School starts back tomorrow here in Center, Texas. Children and teenagers are making all those last-minute preparations for the big day. But teachers have been preparing for weeks. And yesterday, at First Baptist Center, we took a moment to recognize, encourage, and pray for our educators. It was our honor to honor them. As school bells are about to ring, here's some thoughts about teachers.

*It takes a big heart to shape little minds.

August 8, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Thursday, August 8.

This coming Sunday morning, here at First Baptist Center, Texas, we'll begin our service with a worship song called "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High." You're probably familiar with it, it's been around for 35 years now, and that's a long time for a contemporary Christian song. It was written by a man named Rick Founds - a man who was ahead of his time.

August 6, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Tuesday, August 6.

August 2, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Friday, August 2.

What is life?

That's a pretty serious question for a late summer Friday morning. But it's an eternal question that has crossed everyone's mind from time to time. What is the meaning of life?

Is life just the accumulation of time? I did some math and figured out that I've lived 24,733 days, 595,160 hours, 35,711,920 minutes. I had to lie down after that. And that's something I've spent about 200,000 hours doing - sleeping.

July 31, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Wednesday, July 31.

On a Sunday evening in the summer of 1988, I had to miss the Sunday night service at my church in Arlington, Texas. I've always enjoyed Sunday night services. It's a more casual atmosphere than Sunday morning, and you can include audience participation features like testimonies and song requests. But on that particular Sunday night, July 31, 1988, my church somehow made it through the evening service without me - imagine that. I was at a hospital in Fort Worth for the birth of my firstborn child.