Eulogy for Anna Lou McKinney On May 19, 1996, my first full day as the youth minister for the Main Street church, Bob and Ann McKinney hosted a get-together for the entire church to welcome me. Howard Justice told me that I’d never learn where the McKinney’s live, so he’d better take me. Howard Justice […]

Funeral for Edna Earl Goodman December 8, 2025 Psalm 23 A day or two after Edna Earl entered hospice care, Jimmy and Peggy Burke visited with her. She looked them both in the eye and said that she was going to get stronger and she was going to get better. Truer words have never been […]

Souls that are Dying (Ezekiel 33:10-11) One Fourth of July, when I was around 7, Mom and Dad took my brothers and me to the University of Kentucky’s football stadium for a fireworks display. Nannie and Papaw lived about a mile and a half from us, and they normally knew if we were going somewhere, […]

Do You Love HIM? Everyone who dies goes to heaven. Seriously. If you don’t believe me, simply open the obituaries. Mike Walker may have been an absolutely horrible person who abused his wife and children when he had too much to drink, but he was lovingly accepted into the arms of Jesus when he breathed […]

My Trip to the Neurologist All my life something has been just a tad off; I’ve been just a little clumsy, and I’ve had multiple doctor appointments for “weird” things that just never made much sense to the doctor. The older I got, the more pronounced my symptoms became, and my walking deteriorated rapidly. My […]