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Leaving Salem
“Enter to Worship…Leave to Serve”
By
ronniemcbrayer
In the gospels there is an account where Jesus is transformed – “transfigured” is the traditional word – on a mountainside. Jesus picked back up the glory that was once his before his incarnation. His body and clothes become brilliant with light and as “white as any bleach could clean them.” Moses and Elijah, the…
Mortgaging the Ministry
By
ronniemcbrayer
A mammoth auditorium. Multiple projection screens. Thousands of dollars in sound, video, and lighting equipment. A stage larger than most middle class homes, and more greenery and floral arrangements than you would find at a Home Depot garden center. And outside there was four acres of black-topped asphalt. The only thing that distinguished this place…
Pew Potatoes
By
ronniemcbrayer
My grandmother lived her entire life on a farm. First, it was cotton, then it was soybean, and finally it was cows and chickens. I spent every summer of my childhood and teen years on that farm, working in my uncle’s chicken houses, chasing stray cows, bailing and stacking hay. I learned the very first…
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