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- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee January 31, 2020
- A Song of Unity from Long Ago August 19, 2019
- Beautiful Hills of Home August 16, 2019
- When Your Family Tree Becomes All Hung Up July 22, 2019
- “The Storms are on the Ocean” as a Metaphor for Homesickness June 15, 2019
- “Excuse Me, May I Look Inside Your Biscuit?” May 3, 2019
Top Posts & Pages
- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
- Remembering Vacation Bible School in the '60s and '70s
- The Flood of 1977
- Disappearing Towns: Morrison City
- Robert Sayers Sheffey, Mountain Preacher and Man of Prayer
- A Sunny Day in Sharon Springs
- A Conversation that didn't Go Well
- History of a Part of Weber City, Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
- Ode to Soup Beans and Corn Bread
Tag Archives: singing
A Song of Unity from Long Ago
A man was enjoying the freedom found in the wilderness of the young nation of America. He was living any way he wanted to, not having a moral compass, but doing what he wanted, when he wanted, regardless of any … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged Appalachian, bible, christian, Christianity, Church, faith, God, grace, Holston, Holy Spirit, Jesus, love, Methodism, Methodist, mountain, preacher, religion, singing, southern, Spirituality, Tennessee, United Methodist, United Methodist Church, worship
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Gone to Conference
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”–Hebrews 10: 25, (King James Bible) I am not sure who first thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Annual Conference, appointments, Church, civil war, day lilies, East Tennessee, Lake Junaluska, license, means of grace, Methodist, ministry, North Carolina, ordination, preacher, preaching, singing, Southwest Virginia, union confederate, United Methodist
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Ode to Stamps-Baxter
I must have been born too late. I love gospel music and nobody wants to hear it anymore. I grew up in a little Methodist church north of Kingsport, Tennessee. We did the appropriate thing on Sunday morning, and sang … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, gospel, Methodist, quartet, shaped-note, singing, Sunday Night
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Be Still, and Know . . .
Take time to be holy,The world rushes on; Much time spend in secret With Jesus alone; William Dunn Longstreet penned these words in the latter half of the 19th century. The phrase “the world rushes on” has become timeless, and, … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, beauty, christmas, Church, concept, grief, hectic, holy, Jesus, mt. horeb, pain, peace, rawness, silent night, singing, starry night, stars, stillness, take time, take time to be holy, the world rushes on, time, Uncategorized, voice, voice of God
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