17 years ago today a tough little girl lost her battle with cancer. She wasn’t even 3 years old. And most of her life was a struggle to survive. I never knew her, but I know her Grandmother. And I saw the anguish she went through miss her granddaughter slipped away. Tuesday was the little girl’s name. And I wrote a tribute song based … Read the rest…
Category Archives: Tony Funderburk
I’m gonna say a little something about living well. And I don’t mean living well. Yeah, I guess I could use a little clearing up. Because it sounds like I contradict myself within just a few words. But it’ll make sense in just a second. I’m talking about living well, the noun. There. All clear? Good, let’s move on. Just kidding. But I am … Read the rest…
America’s first generation citizens fought some very costly battles and a war in order for you and me to be truly free. And in less than 250 years, the rest of us have managed to destroy most of that freedom. And citizens, these days, don’t even want to be truly free. They prefer the socialism we now live in (or some might say in … Read the rest…
I saw this headline on a social media platform today: Podcast Host Calls White Evangelical Christianity a Cancer – And I could not believe how badly they misspelled the word blessing. I mean, cancer doesn’t even remotely look like blessing. So how could they mix those words up so badly? Because I’m sure they meant to say white evangelical Christianity is a blessing. At … Read the rest…
Here’s a misdemeanor definition from the dictionary on my computer: a nonindictable offense, regarded in the US (and formerly in the UK) as less serious than a felony. A nonindictable offense is one where lawyers and law-enforcement don’t “formally accuse of or charge with a serious crime.” And just to clarify a little bit more, here’s a definition of the word felony from that … Read the rest…
I don’t follow these kinds of things. But so-called news flashes before your eyes from just about every angle these days. So, it’s difficult to impossible to not see a knuckleheaded headline that talks about nonsense such as the Oscar nominations. Oscar nominations, schmoscar nominations. At least back in the day of the silver screen, most actors and actresses had more class and dressed … Read the rest…
Have you ever read the list of the perils of Paul? It’s an epic list, to say the least. And it was because he shared the unvarnished, hard truth. About the only peril preachers, in probably 99% of American churches, face these days is obesity. And my guess is, that’s not because they’re sharing that same unvarnished, hard truth in God’s word. Here’s the … Read the rest…