Botanical Baptist Church Service
Dressed in her Sunday Best Opening Prayer The choir will now sing for the Lord Offeratory Hymn Special Music Today’s text: Matthew 6:28-30 Touched by the Son *all photography by rodalena
View ArticleOpen your hymnals to page 365
There’s a reason this video went viral. It’s not the beautiful girl with the stunning vocal. It’s not the marvelous harmony, it’s not the reverent gentle guitar. It’s not the big crowd and the cool...
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Den of Satan In independant fundamental Baptist circles, actually admitting you have ever been inside a theatre to see a movie-any movie, including The Sound of Music (a perfectly wonderful film, by...
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I’m sort of wishing I had a super-secret room I could escape to. On another planet. You may be wondering why I am feeling this way on such a marvelous Monday. Why, all is right with the world: Osama...
View ArticleMan of God/Child of God
You, with all of those pretty letters behind your Important Influential Name (Gifts from those In the Know, they think, to encourage you because you have such A Way With Words), In this sign, conquer....
View ArticleWhy the Preacher’s Wife is Not a Hag
Jan. 2: …and God, (I heard that Dr. Hutson used to start his prayers like that. Did he, Lord? I’m stealing his greeting. I just love the continuity it demonstrates about our conversations…) I’m so...
View ArticleOn Separation of Church and State, Gay Marriage, and Ill Eagles
This land is your land. During the tumultuous in-utero period of our Republic, the infantile thirteen colonies had governments most of us would morally and constitutionally despise for one major...
View ArticleInterpreting the Fundamentals
The fundamentals can be complicated, and interpretation of the seemingly most simple concepts is, to the frustration of many, completely subjective. Monday night, the Seattle Seahawks won what is quite...
View ArticleRodalena Reflects: Lessons from Atticus
I wrote about a subject I’m not very comfortable with yesterday: guns, specifically people who lawfully carry concealed weapons. It was not an easy or comfortable post to write-it pulled me out of my...
View ArticleR & R In New England
This week, my boyfriend has shown me his New England: Rhode Island (“Rogue’s Island”-how marvelous a nickname is that?) and Boston. It was an amazing trip. I had never seen New England; my boyfriend...
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