Dec 14, 2022
Time is right to walk back through the door
Life can be very strange at times, can’t it? As cliché as it sounds, when one door closes, another one usually does open.
Sometimes, you just have to be at the right spot and the right time to see it and walk through.
Dec 14, 2022
For God’s Sake: Time is ripe; receive God’s gift of his Son
I have a friend who is obsessed with the proper use of grammar.
One time when going through TSA security screening at the airport, he felt the need to correct the TSA agent’s grammar.
Dec 14, 2022
Out and About
As I go to meetings and listen to meetings in Santa Rosa County and now Okaloosa County, I realize how valuable it is to know what is going on in two counties, not just one.
Dec 12, 2022
Brian Out Loud
Deion Sanders is good for college football. But not everyone sees it that way.
The man best known as Prime Time is getting his share of criticism in the wake of his decision to jump ship at Jackson State and take the head coaching job at Colorado. He goes in hoping to restore the glory days of the Buffaloes.
Dec 6, 2022
‘Yellowstone’ echoes the important message of ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Maybe there is an unseen longing for freedom in America. “Yellowstone,” the number one show on TV, has been outed as a having undertones of “conservative” messaging.
I guess Kevin Costner has now made so much money that he can afford to be outed as right-of-center in Hollywood.
Dec 6, 2022
For God’s Sake: Our hope is in Jesus Christ
November 27th was the first Sunday of Advent; its theme was hope.
When Winston Churchill learned that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States had entered World War II, he said, “Silly people, and there were many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States…But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins.
Dec 6, 2022
Brian Out Loud
There is a certain date on the schedule that needs to be circled this month. No, not Christmas.
Santa Claus will get his night in the spotlight soon enough.
I’m talking about Dec. 12. That’s round one of Navarre and Pace squaring off on the basketball court in the regular season, perhaps a preview of a potential showdown in the district championship game a couple of months from now.
Nov 29, 2022
For God’s Sake: Jesus is the reason for the season
I knew it was inevitable, the culture has long been drifting in that direction, and it is just a slogan, but I still cringed when I heard it used in this way.
“This is the reason for the season,” a commercial for who-knows-what cheerily declared.
Nov 29, 2022
Win or lose, this U.S. men’s soccer team deserves our support
We! We believe! We believe that we can win! (At least, we hope we did….)
We’re writing this the day before the United States’ men’s team plays Iran with a berth in the knockout round of the World Cup at stake.
Nov 29, 2022
Brian Out Loud
Cold rain and chilly air made things less than ideal for the first ever NCAA Division II playoff game at Pen Air Field on the University of West Florida campus two weeks ago.
But the result the Argos were able to get here a on miserable mid-November afternoon more than made up for the weather.