The times they are a changing
Toby Teague By now you’ve heard the news that Coach Farley is leaving Leslie for an opportunity to coach at Jackson High. It made me think about how times change around us. It is something people have...
View ArticleAutism Awareness Month; ‘we can celebrate the gift that they are to our lives’
Toby Teague April is a month set aside for Autism Awareness. If I can, I want to jump into a passage from the Bible that bothered me when I read it earlier this year. In Leviticus 21:16 – 23 God lays...
View ArticleSunday is Mother’s Day
Toby Teague This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yep, that is right Mother’s Day. Some will read that and not panic at all because they knew and planned to honor their mother. For others you are beginning to...
View Article‘Every American family has a story and a sacrifice’
Toby Teague On Sunday at our church we remembered those who give so much to our country. We remembered soldiers who have served our country and given the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. We had...
View ArticleFaith in Unanswered Questions
Toby Teague Questions. I get a lot of them in my line of work, just like a lot of ministers do. They range from “Why is the sky blue?” to “Why does God let bad things happen?” Those questions run the...
View ArticleMarriage by the years
Toby Teague In the past two weeks I’ve had the luck to be around for a couple of 50th Anniversary celebrations. One was for my wife’s parents and the other for a friend’s parents. Both couples...
View ArticleFlight School
Toby Teague If you talk to me very much, you know the one thing I really hate is flying. I mean that I can’t stand to fly at all. The problem is that Shelly likes to travel a lot. She can fly and never...
View ArticleFlight School #2
Last time we talked about the first step to going anywhere is to figure out where you are right now. The Bible teaches that we are all sinners. That to begin our flight to God we have to admit that we...
View ArticleA Whale of a Tale
Toby Teague There are stories throughout the Bible that lead us to concentrate on one character and sometimes forget the other characters involved in the story. Sometimes we can learn a lesson by...
View ArticleFlight School #3
Toby Teague It has become crazy how much they charge for baggage on flights. It seems like pretty soon it might be cheaper to just buy clothes wherever you are going. It is crazy to think that one day...
View ArticleSnow Globe Christmas
Toby Teague Where I grew up we didn’t see much snow. Don’t get me wrong. It snowed; sometimes like 6 inches at a time. Only problem was that we had no hills to sled on and your snowman would usually...
View ArticleFlight School #4
Toby Teague Last time we talked about a couple of bags we all pack for our trips: the makeup bag where we “hide” all of our imperfections. Then we pack our hang-up bag where all the things that are...
View ArticleFlight School #5
Toby Teague After we know where we are and where we want to go, we have to pack our bags and eventually get on the plane and fly. If you have flown on a plane there is one thing I bet (at least I hope...
View ArticleSouthern-Fried Wisdom #1
Toby Teague I grew up in Texas. Strange thing about Texas is that sometimes people want to say something without saying something. I grew up having to decipher different sayings my whole life. These...
View ArticleSouthern-Fried Wisdom #2
Toby Teague Another one of the sayings I heard as a kid, I’ll have to clean up a little for the paper. The saying has some wisdom to help us with trusting what people have to share with us. We all...
View ArticleSouthern Wisdom # 3
Toby Teague I grew up in West Texas where there were a lot of ranchers. We lived only 100 miles from one of the largest cattle ranches in America. They used motorcycles and helicopters to round up...
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