Let me see if I can clarify some things about life and society as we struggle to get along in 2015.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 8:44 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The price of great love is real grief. I had a full blown experience in 1992 when my beloved father died from liver cancer.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 8:59 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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This has been one of the most trying months in America leading up to July 4. We have the tragic shooting in SC with their Legislature now debating whether to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from their complex.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 9:17 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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We seem to be trying to make America into whatever political party you favor. It is about time to consider the real part of July 4, 1776 . . .
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:43 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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When we came to Rocky Mount in 1986 we were building a house. No sooner than we got in a bolt of lightning hit it and, fortunately, it was grounded well enough it did not catch fire!
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 12:54 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have been reminded of an old book from the 1950's when prejudice and hate were in full spring in the United States. I read his theories of personality at Emory in my Psychology Major studies.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Yesterday’s news was full of the “Great Flag Controversy.” I was born in Pickens County. SC, while my father was Pastor of the Liberty First Baptist Church.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It has been in our faces as the replacement story for the prisoner escape near the Canadian Border of New York State.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:55 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have been covering the history of the "Conservative Resurgence" conquest of the Southern Baptist Convention as well as the NC Baptist State Convention.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 5:59 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Last Wednesday, July 17, the women of Beaufort County gathered at the Ne-er Do Well Restaurant to recognize outstanding students and give a scholarship for college to one.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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My tree work has carried me all around from my Rocky Mount base. The topic of discussion often turned to what was going on at the little country church my customer attended.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 10:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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One look across the Commissioners table showed me the same faces fixed and serious over whatever business was to be transacted at an official meeting of the Commissioners.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Here is the "New Baptist Look." His father was at the Taylors (SC) FBC when I started at Easley in 1970.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The author speaks as a Republican and a Christian
Published: Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 @ 11:49 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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This week is the real Southern Baptist Convention. It is the Annual Meeting in Ohio this year. This is when all the churches send Messengers to vote on matters.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 4:26 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Realities of the Conservative Takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and NC Baptist State Convention now continued---it is not reserved for churches only as cited above.
Published: Sunday, June 14th, 2015 @ 3:10 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I was present and talking with many after Dr. Randall Lolley was fired.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 4:03 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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At long last, we have someone asking for clarification between writer and average church member wondering WHAT HAPPENED?
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 2:46 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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A quick review of Conservatism at work in the Southern Baptist Convention is a good analysis of Conservatism at work in politics and NC.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 8:41 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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This morning a crowd gathered to see the Mayor of Belhaven and his entourage off to Washington, DC. There were some 100 people gathered on the waterfront and across from the closed Belhaven Hospital.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 12:06 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Lastly...one of the problems is that the wisdom and the message of the Bible.....the challenges of the Gospel ...the love of God....Godly living...ALL THESE HEAVY ISSUES OF FAITH......are of such depth that few of us can understand them...
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 12:58 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Many readers may have thought that Stan is right---I am a "LIBERAL." I am critical about the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. They assume I have been against anything conservative from the beginning.
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 @ 1:42 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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From the early times of the Christian faith there have been charlatans. Simon the Magician is the first cited in the New Testament.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 8:11 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have just seen over the last week a "most interesting possibility" --- the President ultimately becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 8:40 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I gave you a description of the Conservative Takeover of the largest and most democratic religious group in America--- the Southern Baptist Convention.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 11:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It is too much trouble to leave the beach and go to a boring ceremony or small parade with old men giving speeches and wearing the VFW insignia. Those ceremonies signify the real meaning of this Holiday.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Good tests are a starting point for good help = KNOW THYSELF!
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 12:56 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It seems major events of the last few days are making us think about how fearful the world has become and how we need to react to it.
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 9:45 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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A good and wise minister friend of mine sent me a most insightful article concerning the situation in Baltimore.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 @ 2:36 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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This is a Princeton study done recently which shows how we have gotten out of touch between the US public and all our Representatives
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 3:46 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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This goes back to the history of Mankind. The first Genocide depicted in the Bible is found in Genesis. It is the story of Cane and Abel.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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One of our Clarkston High School cheerleaders has left us due to a severe stroke and God's healing powers. . . We all grieve her loss / have fond memories of her smile and good cheer / her daughter puts it this way.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 @ 8:33 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The economy was not what it used to be. I had done well with insurance. I represented Ministers Life Insurance Company and traveled the eastern end of NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I had no real clue what they were citing. It was early in the legislative works and got neither other publicity nor any explanation to me as an average citizen.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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