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(NOTE: recent events — February 2013 — have caused me to rescind my endorsement of the Presidency of Joe Aguillard. I still love Louisiana College, however, and pray that Louisiana Baptists will “right the ship” and make the College once again a place of which we can all be proud.)

For too long, Louisiana College has been called “The best kept secret in Louisiana”.  It is time the secret got out!  LC is our state Baptist college – the only one owned and operated by the Louisiana Baptist Convention.  Last week I participated in a two-day series of meetings at LC, where I am on the Board of Trustees.  I just have to write something about what is going on there.

LC is on the other side of a turn-around.  Some time ago, I read the testimony of the Executive Director of one of our Baptist state conventions, who said that the first time he ever heard the basic doctrines of his faith questioned was in a religion class he attended at Louisiana College.  Not exactly what Baptist church members hope for when they send their students off to the college they are supporting with their Cooperative Program funds!

But LC has experienced a dramatic and unusual change for a college – one for the better! Continue reading →

I actually prayed for rain yesterday – really I did!  It has been SO dry; our grass is just sitting there dying, and with a plethora of wedding bills, there is no way we are going to water the lawn right now.  The last time we tried that, our son Paul was doing us a favor by taking care of the lawn while we were gone on vacation; when we got back, we had a $100 water bill!  We put a stop to that right quick!  But it has been SO dry recently, on my way home from church yesterday, I just prayed, “Lord, I know there is not supposed to be much of a chance of rain tonight, but if it is Your will, I just pray that You would let it rain here; we really need it.”  Now, I am NOT claiming that I brought that rain last night (what is that old expression: “even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every so often”?) but I was SO happy to hear those thunderclaps in the middle of the night.  I always love storms anyway!  “There is beauty in the bellow of a blast; there is grandeur in the growling of a gale …” goes the old Gilbert & Sullivan song — but I digress … I greatly enjoyed listening to the thunder during the night, even though it did not make for the best night’s sleep – especially since I had stayed up too late reading in the first place!   

So this morning, when I rolled over, more than just a bit groggy, to see what time it was, I saw only a blank face on my digital clock … ooops, my beloved storm had a cost: the power is out! Continue reading →