Submitted by Doug Fincher

“Cowbirds and Cowbird People” by Doug Fincher

“Love your neighbor as yourself...” Matt. 19:19

October 26, 2020 - I watched the brown headed Cowbirds pair off so sweetly again this year, but as usual they didn’t build any nests. When birds of smaller species build theirs and lay their eggs, the cowbirds sneak in, roll their eggs out, replace them with their own, and then let the smaller mother hatch their eggs. If an egg from the natural mother is allowed to hatch, the mother cowbird will come and push it from the nest.

“The Seven Deadly Sins” By Doug Fincher

July 20, 2020 - The seven deadly sins, also known as cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. They are attitudes and devices that lead into many other sins. I am  87 years old and have been preaching since I was eighteen years old. I have preached many sermons on those deadly sins over the years and have heard many other preachers warn us about committing them.

Daddy’s Pipe by Doug Fincher

June 22, 2020 - From the time I was three years old, I never saw my Dad smoke anything except a pipe. Wherever he went, the pipe went with him on the porch, in the outhouse, in the woods or at work. I even saw him a few times sound asleep snoring with it in his mouth. Wherever Daddy was, the pipe was. It a curved one that hung low below his chin.

 

The Fly by Doug Fincher

“Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.”
 
May 18, 2020 - After working in the garden and piddling in my gun shop today, I came in to check my email. As I was reading it, I noticed a fly had flown into my half-filled glass of water. He was one of the bad ones, the green ones, the kind that hang around carcasses and filth.
 

St. Mary’s Baptist Church by Doug Fincher

March 26, 2020 - In 1962, I resigned my pastorate in Portland, Oregon to become pastor of the First Baptist Church of Starks, Louisiana. I didn’t know it then, but this town would give me some of the most unforgettable memories of my lifetime. All of the town’s businesses were located along one street: two small grocery stores, (Ristrum’s Grocery and Amon Husband’s Grocery), the post office and further down the street, was the Starks School, and across from the school was the First Baptist Church and the church parsonage.

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