Update on the funeral service: The funeral service for Kristen LaGuardia will be Friday, April 12, at 11:30 AM,  at Eastern Shore Presbyterian Church in Fairhope, Ala.  Visitation will be from 10:00-11:30. A reception will follow the service. Kristen LaGuardia, 25, was killed in an car accident late Saturday night, April 6, 2013. Kristen is... Continue Reading

Margaret Thatcher is arguably the most complete British leader of the last 100 years, surpassing even Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, she was tough and successful in foreign policy, taking on and vanquishing totalitarian evil. Churchill warned the world as the Iron Curtain descended across Europe. Decades later, the world celebrated as the Iron Lady helped... Continue Reading

Maybe the education establishment is afraid that Joel Bomgar might try to apply the same innovation to the education system that he has to the technology sector. The company he founded and runs, Bomgar, Inc., is the fastest-growing technology company in Mississippi and is among the fastest-growing in the country.   [Editor’s note: Joel Bomgar... Continue Reading

The Fourth Circuit also ruled that the UNCW officials could be held personally liable if I ultimately won the case. In other words, all defendants were stripped of their qualified immunity. It was a resounding victory for academic freedom. When the case was remanded, the Fourth Circuit asked the district court to determine whether there... Continue Reading

Because I believe how valuable you are, as a Christian I must say to you, out of deep respect for you and a concern for your future, that as a homo sexual you are engaging in a sexual practice that is contrary to the design that God the Creator intended for you. Please understand that... Continue Reading

Neither God nor my children have gone along with my desires. When my son was about four, we went to a funeral home to visit the family of an influential lady in the church who had died. After looking at her body in the casket, my son announced to her daughter that the lady had... Continue Reading

“Over the past 33 years we’ve been together through every kind of crisis. Kay and I’ve been privileged to hold your hands as you faced a crisis or loss, stand with you at gravesides, and prayed for you when ill. Today, we need your prayer for us.  No words can express the anguished grief we... Continue Reading

“We started where we started, and we’ve been able to just … make our way. John has worked hard and kept his integrity, the values of what he’s always believed, and just kept it going. Now I feel he has reached the very top. I think it means more when you do that. You appreciate... Continue Reading

“I would say the hardest thing about being a pastor’s kid for me was watching my dad struggle with the ongoing temptation to become discouraged in the ministry. When my dad was down, it affected all of us and it seemed that there was nothing we could do to help him in the spiritual battles... Continue Reading

Criticism, offered in love and received with humility, provides ministers with tremendous opportunities to grow. It gives us the opportunity to become more effective for the advance of Christ’s kingdom. And it reminds us that we really are as bad as the Bible says we are. So let us listen carefully, weigh our responses thoughtfully,... Continue Reading