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Memory: In the Fall of 1976 I helped Dave Hyles with a haunted house for Halloween at the old youth center. I think it had been a Catholic church once. We had the strobe lights, live rodents and reptiles, chainsaws, live performers, etc. I thought it was the grandest production I had ever seen...

Booger?

My two cents: Donald Trump is not someone who I would want my kids to emulate in many ways. I do not believe that he is saved and probably doesn't have a firm grasp of the gospel. That's shameful to those who have had an opportunity to share the same with him. That said, I agree with MANY of...

As far as I'm concerned any IFB could have bought anything from John MacArthur or RC Sproul and not be doctrinally very off base in anything. Instead, more bought garbage from people like Peter Ruckman and adopted it as heaven sent.

While I thought Mrs. Evans was a pretty sharp person, I remember taking that class in the old dining hall and pretty much getting nothing from it. Looking back on those days, I'm not sure if Marlene was that great. She was very different and very confident for the ladies her age that I had been...

It is reported that HAC's media program includes some IT certifications that are widely accepted and that they also have an accredited EMT certification program. Good for them.

I believe that they did it on any fifth Sunday of a month at the close of the Sunday evening service, which means a couple of times a year. A lot of Baptist churches did it then. I'm not sure why. I still remember how Bro. Hyles would take a photo of his father out of his wallet and illustrate...

What did he do occupationally? Was he in ministry? Even there, it would seem a little unusual for a guy to go from faculty, even speaking in chapel, to completely out of ministerial work (unless there was something scandalous). I thought he was a little odd and didn't quite fit in that school...

And efficiency, too. They got 4,000 people watered and fed in less than 15 minutes.

I'm very aware of that stuff. But it seems the people who go there don't care.

Sherry, I believe you are single now, right? If I were, I just might rent. I have a 3,600 sq foot home, probably worth $700,000. The house is 28 years old and frankly, it's a money pit. If I'm not spending $7,500 a year on maintenance, I'm falling behind. Not all of it was "have to" but I've...

I think you are correct. I am not a huge Ramsey follower, but it seems to me that he takes a very simplistic approach -- don't be in debt, pay cash for everything you can, have an emergency fund. That's not radical. I think where he comes from on credit cards is that for MANY people they are...

I'm in the deep south in a "small" metro area. I don't think any of the trad churches (Baptist, Meth, Presby, etc.) are flourishing. Maybe a few, but not the majority. The only one that is growing is an "ARC" church (are you familiar with the "Association of Related Churches) which in the past...

"Booger Brown"? :oops: Is that someone I should know?

I don't expect for you to find anything.

Jo, just reading your post makes me tired now! Yes, we were living versions of the same life in the seventies. I have tried to forgive my youthfulness, but am prone to bouts of "what if?" I must believe that all of the parts of my story were part of God's divine plan for my life and as the old...

Something else, not so good. Did anybody else get demerits and get "campused" at HAC? I did and it still perturbs me when I think about it. I won't say who my dorm inspector was because I otherwise liked him, but he kept writing me up that my bed wasn't made properly, which eventually got me...

Since these are random musings, I thought about all the good hymns I was introduced to at FBC/HAC back then, that I had never heard in the little Baptist church of my youth. I still find myself humming some of those today from time to time and I think about the good things of that time. I am...

I believe there is a legitimate purpose for that kind of training in the military. I believe people like Jim Vineyard did it because he COULD and he liked it. Again, in the end I thought less of Bro. Hyles for allowing Vineyard to operate as he did in those years. And in those years it was hard...

He was a teacher at HAC in the seventies. I think he may have been raised at FBC. He was a fairly young guy, but I have no idea where he ended up in the eighties and beyond.