Listen to “An Open Hand” by Fred Smith In the middle of the crippling cold snap in Texas the store manager of the HEB grocery store had to make a decision. With hundreds of [...]
Listen to “Late Night On A Long Drive” by Fred Smith As a boy I did not have much time alone with my father. The best opportunities came late at night on long car trips while [...]
Listen to “The Family Farm” by Fred Smith I’ve had many conversations over the years with friends about the dangers of leaving wealth to children only to ruin them. It’s taken [...]
*There is no audio recording of the blog this week. Fred will be back next week! I suppose the unexamined life is not worth living may be right for the most part. However, is it possible [...]
Listen to “Never Despair” by Fred Smith None of us thought it would end the way it did. It began with small, almost unnoticed decisions by Mrs. Britton, our Sunday School [...]
Listen to “End of the Line” by Fred Smith The story of Abram’s calling begins at the end of the line. If you trace the descendants of Adam through Noah and then to Terah, the [...]
Listen to “The Gandalf Option” by Fred Smith In 2017 Rod Dreher published “The Benedict Option” to define the new relationship between the world and the Church allowing the [...]
Listen to “The Rabble Among Us” by Fred Smith It’s not just me but a growing number of people have made comments about a theme running through commencement speeches for the [...]
Listen to “Living In That Moment” by Fred Smith Raised a Baptist I had no exposure to what I later learned is called the liturgical calendar. We observed Christmas, Easter, [...]
Listen to “What Did You Bring Me?” By Fred Smith A big surprise for me when we moved to Tyler was how many people here travel all over the world. I expected a relatively small [...]
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