LUNCH BEHIND THE LIGUSTRUM Rev. A.J. Ogden Living with my mother in the back woods of southwest Mississippi, times were hard in the 1930s, to state it mildly. We lived with almost no visible means of support, I guess you could say. When it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LIVING BY FAITH A.J. Ogden Every person God made lives by fear or faith, one or the other. If we have no one any bigger than “self” to lean upon, we are of all people most miserable and insecure all the time. In God I live, move,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LIVING A GODLY LIFE IN AN UNGODLY WORLD Rev. A.J. Ogden A truly born again Christian is a strange looking creature to the average unbeliever who is walking in spiritual darkness. The world system wants to live in sin and the Christian desires to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Little Is Big When God Is In It Surely God must have made me for the purpose of doing small things. I’ve never accomplished great and mighty things in life, neither has anyone ever accused me of being very smart. But I have been compelled...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Like Sheep Christians Don’t Wallow A badger met a skunk one day who would not share the right of way and raised his battle flag and said, “If you want trouble come ahead.” The badger said, “You little squirt. You are a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT Rev. A.J. Ogden While serving in combat duty in World War II, we often had to beat a hasty retreat (run for your life) and sometimes we had the enemy on the run which also meant we ran in the advance. But one thing...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Let The Fires Begin In Our Pulpits Rev. A. J. Ogden I recently went to the Liberty Drug Store to pick up a medicine prescription. The store has a coffee room in the back were mostly men gather each day for coffee and chatter. I’m sure many...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LET GOD CONTROL YOUR FLIGHT Rev.A.J. Ogden As a child growing up, I was watching the bigger boys and was fascinated with the multi-colored kites they were flying. The town kids had money to buy the ten or fifteen cents ready made kites of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LESSONS WE LEARN BY THE DRYING BROOK Rev. A.J. Ogden In 1 Kings 17:1-7, God commands Elijah to go down to a brook called Cherith, sit there and be fed by ravens, because a long drought was on the way. He had water from the brook and food from...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Keys To Living A happy Life Upon This Earth Rev. A. J. Ogden Advertising specialists spend hours ever week trying to come up with new gimmicks to get our attention. We laugh at how silly some of them appear, but the only way we know they are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
