TRICK? OR TREAT?

Trick or Treat? Which will you get?

The Bible tells us that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

All we have to do is BELIEVE.

There was information on the net the other day that Atheists were advertising on buses in England with the message "There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy yourself".

How scary is THAT?


One day even the Atheists will have to bow and proclaim that He is the Christ.



I would rather live my life as a "Christian" and maybe miss it, than NOT live my live as a Christian and "MISS IT".



Will you be Tricked? Or receive the "TREAT" of eternal life that Jesus Christ has freely given you?



John 3: 16

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23

Romans 5:8

Romans 10:13

Romans 10:9,10

Songfest 08

Hey, where's everybody been? Oh, yeah, I'm the one who hasn't been on here in a few days. This is a busy time of year for me with golf, basketball, school activities, singing, church, etc. So here goes with another blog if your interested.
We just got back from singing at Songfest 08 in Northern Ky, at the Pendleton County fairgrounds, at Griffin Center Amphitheater. It was hosted by Crossroads V and featured several gospel singers and groups mostly from the Cincinati area. The day was beautiful but chilly, and if you have ever had an outside singing in cool weather you know what your up against. If the equipment doesn't mess up your voice does. We had a little trouble with our sound tracks but other than that things went pretty well. Satan didn't win that one!
We met so many nice people up there. The first were the Crossroad V Quintet, Karen, Cindy, Sheri, Sandy and Diana.
The Harpers were already singing when we arrived, but we enjoyed their remaining set. We got to chat a little after they were finished. They sang early in the program because they had two other engagements that day. One of those crazy, busy schedules of gospel singers. lol
We also met Kim with Vision Ministries. Part of their group couldn't come but whenshe and Bridgett sang you couldn't just sit in your seat. Powerful! Kim is a DJ on WAIF 88.3 fm radio in Cincinnati. She has a southern gospel/bluegrass program from 5 am to 8:30 am. This is also on the web at www.WAIF883.org check it out! You might hear us!
The girls of Crossroads V had told me that they have learned a lot during this event, next time it won't be a cool month. lol. We know what you mean girls and hope we can help you out again!
Check out their myspace page, you can find it from our page or go to www.myspace.com/crossroadsgospelquartet

Heart Burn

We have been really busy the past few weeks. This is our busy time of year with homecomings, festivals, fairs, reunions etc. We eat on the run, greasy burgers, pizza, fast foods we can grab and go. We don't always eat right, or at a proper time. Then comes the Heart Burn. Thank goodness for Prilosec!
And so With our Spiritual Food. If we don't dine on God's Word in a proper manner, we can end up with Heart Burn also. A different kind of heart burn. Throught the word we are fed. We find knowledge, understanding, peace, comfort, strength and so much more. We can feast and feast and never founder. Matter of fact the more we get, the better we feel. We could never founder on God's word to us. We need to dine on God's Word daily. Hey, we don't go without food for weeks at a time do we? I'm as guilty as most of you and I'm gonna try to do better. What about you? Thank Goodness We have Jesus!

No Comment....

I know there are some people hitting this blog because of the counter. I hope that someone is reading some of it. I know it may be boring or stupid to some people and interesting to others. Hey, I'm not the only one on the web with a crazy blog page. I just wanted other gospel groups to share in their experiences by commenting to the blog and maybe we could aquaint ourselves with one another. Like, if you have an interesting venue coming up and would like to share it, or announce it, let me know and I will post it for you. Or we could discuss it. Who knows what we can accomplish here. But there is one thing you must do.....COMMENT.
Just clik on the comment and leave your name and say "hi", if nothing else. I feel like I'm out here all by myself and although I do talk to myself occasionally, it would be nice to hear from YOU, and it would be nice to know that most of these hits on this page are not by mistake only. Know what I mean?
So comment. And if you are feeling really generous, click on the adsense ads and make their day!! lol. Anyway have a great day and hopefully if I find there is actually someone out there reading this stuff, I will feel better about continuing.

Ahhh, remember those homecomings?

Well it's that time of year again.....you know, when all the singers out there put on a few pounds from all the homecomings! Yeah, it's homecoming time again and that means good food and great gospel singing! Just about any where you turn there's a church having homecoming. You don't have to look very far. And that's one advantage of living in small towns in the south. Everyone either knows mostly everybody at the other churches in the county or is kin to them. So you don't have to be invited, just go on over and fellowship!
The only thing that I have noticed about homecomings over the years that is different, is now days we start at 11, sing till 12, eat and go home. As soon as we've eaten we are in the car and gone! Gotta get back to the recliner, or the football game on TV. Shoot, we gotta get up in the morning and go to work. I've noticed several times that seems like before everyone has even finished, the women are cleaning up and packing up. LEAVE THOSE DISHES ALONE. LET WHOEVER BROUGHT EM, TAKE EM HOME AND CLEAN EM THEMSELF! Enjoy your self!
Now back in my childhood days (a couple years ago, lol ) Sunday school started at 10, preaching and singing at 11 , broke to eat, then came back for more singing afterwards. Sometimes the men played horseshoes, sometimes we ate more or cut a watermelon, then got home between 4 and 6pm. People visited with one another. This was a time of fellowship, visiting with neighbors, and friends we hadn't seen in a while and familly who came home from up north. No one got in a hurry to leave. We didn't have anywhere we needed to go. There was no such thing as WalMart. Town was closed on Sunday, we didn't go shopping. Nothing much on TV. We only got 2 or 3 channels anyway. It was more fun being with our friends. OUTSIDE!
What has happen? Do we not remember how to fellowship anymore? Are we too busy for one another? Do we just go to eat? What do you think?

I've got the gas pump blues!

Ok someone out there needs to write a song about those "gas pump blues"! On Wednesday we stopped for gas at one of our local businesses at $3.39 per gallon. We were so excited! (This time last year we would have had a heart attack at that much!) We were on our way out to the church to practice a little and said "We ought to come back and fill up the bus." But guess what we forgot to do.
This morning at 7:30, gas was up to 3.99, people were lined up at the pumps like there was no tomorrow. By noon, most stations in town were completely out, here in Barbourville. One station said that they had already had two trucks there today and were almost out again. By 4 pm gas was anywhere from 3.99/gal to 4.59.
We stopped to fill up the bus before our singing this evening, (at 4.10/gal0, and the pumps were so slow it took 15 minutes to get $60.00 worth. We needed to get on the road so that's all we got. Thank goodness we weren't on empty before we started.
The CRAZY thing about this whole situation is look around you..... the roads are full. No one seems to care how much this liquid gold cost. We are addicted to travel apparently.
The SAD thing about this whole situation is WHY? Why is gas going up, when oil went down?
Well we could argue that statement all day.
Anyway, back to my first statement. If good ole Windy Bagwell were still around, I'm sure he'd have a very funny story to tell about fueling up the bus. Cause it's highway robbery....and that's why I'm telling the truth with my hands up!!!

Dolly and Max

Have you found that as we get older, we also get lazier. Well maybe not lazy but we find ourselves not wanting to tote all that equipment in, singing after singing after singing. That's the only thing about singing that I DO NOT enjoy. Carrying Equipment!
Donnie and Lloyd have sung together for about 18 years and I just joined them about 5 years ago. Since then we have bought new speakers (light), a new spot monior (small and light), a new dolly and a wheeled tool/utility box. This thing looks like a tool box on wheels but opens to 3 large compartments. We can load all the cords, cord reels, mics, keyboard paddle, duct tape, batteries, patch cords, etc inside and still have room. I can pull it wherever I need to and presto! I love it. It's a Stanley Max and we found it at Lowe's for around $60. So I guess you could say we have two new members in the group. Our roadies, dolly and max. Now if we could only come up with something to carry ALL of Jared's drum pieces!!!!!

Why couldn't he have learn to play a harmonica? LOL