Submitted by Tim Perkins

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Turn Down The Heat!

August 7, 2025 - I was cooking my oatmeal the other morning, and before you could say, “how did it happen,” it had! I didn’t turn the heat down on the stove and my oatmeal boiled over. Now, let’s be honest, any good cook turns the heat down when the pot begins to boil. There is nothing good accomplished by uncontrolled boiling. The food in the pot sticks to the pan and burns or bubbles over the side and is lost.

Across The Preacher’s Desk: The Confidence of Paul

July 31, 2025 - When Paul writes II Timothy, he is an aged soldier of the cross.  He is facing death and writes this letter to young Timothy, his son in the gospel.  In chapter 1 and verse 12 he writes a beautiful passage when he says, “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him.”  It is a touching and inspiring picture.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Living Peaceably – Seriously?

July 3, 2025 - We are living in turbulent times. Our political landscape has become a minefield and it seems that every day the rhetoric becomes more hateful and divisive. Yet, there is a very significant passage of scripture from Paul in Romans chapter 12. Paul tells how we should treat each other. He tells us to be kindly affectioned toward each other, to bless them that persecute us, to rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those who are weeping.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Be Generous With Butter!

June 26, 2025 - If you come to our home and look in the refrigerator for the margarine, you won’t find any. You will, however, find real, sweet cream butter in both salted and unsalted varieties. We use butter at our house, lots of butter and I have the waistline to prove it! This morning, as I applied a generous amount of butter to my biscuits, I watched it turn into a beautiful golden liquid as it soaked into that dry biscuit. That beautiful golden liquid made me think of the words of Jesus in Matthew 7:12, you know, the passage we call the “golden rule.”

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Can Others See Jesus in Me?

June 5, 2025 - There was a time when riding the train was the dominant form of travel in our nation.  I remember as a boy, going with my father to the depot in Marshall to pick up “Aunt Mary” when she would ride the train from Little Rock for a visit.  Well, I read a story from that era not long ago.  It seems there was a little crippled boy who was carrying a basket of candy and fruit to sell, hurrying to the passenger gate of the depot as fast as his crutches would permit.   As the passengers rushed through the gate, a fast moving young business executive accidentally hit the boy

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