Author: Tom Denham

Catching up with the Baptists

Maybe it was my first real date. I can’t remember after all these years, but going out with Jeraldine Crabtree was definitely very early in my dating life. Jerry was pretty, stylish, and had honey blonde hair down to her waist....

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Can we talk?

Harvey had developed a bad habit. It started with barking to let my wife know he needed to go outside to “go potty.” Being alerted before a 4-month old Golden Retriever goes in the house is a wonderful thing, but Harvey figured...

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Get up. You gotta come. We need help!

We woke up to the sounds of a man banging on our door and calling for everyone in the men’s dormitory where I lived in Clinton, Mississippi to get up. I was a senior at Mississippi College that day in April, 1979. My roommate...

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My happiest moment today

My dog and I stopped walking around the block when it got hot this summer; I was afraid walking on the street in the heat of the day would burn Kurtie’s foot pads. We could walk early in the morning before the sun had baked the...

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A girl in my church was hit by a car in December

A girl in my church was hit by a car in December. I’m sure I prayed for her when I heard the news… O Lord, please save this girl. Protect her brain from the swelling. Let her wake up from the coma. Bless her family and keep them...

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