Submitted by Doug Fincher

“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.

"The Bucklews" by Doug Fincher

March 5, 2020 - On our way home from Center yesterday, Pam and I decided to visit Bland Lake near San Augustine. Since it was a beautiful day to drive, we took “the back way" to Shelbyville, to Clever Creek and then the old road from Neuville to Bland Lake. About two miles from the Lake, I suddenly asked Pam to pull over. I couldn’t believe what I saw! It was the old Willie and Maud Bucklew house place and it looked exactly like it did in 1955 when I became pastor of Liberty Hill Baptist Church of San Augustine, Texas.

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