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Grow Your Garden Wisely
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com The Wagner vegetable garden has been a constantly evolving labor of love over many years. Even back as a pretty young kid, I was gardening, mostly things like tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers. Back then, my soil was a really fantastic mixture of dark dirt, horse manure, and ashes
The Uncomfortable Truth About Humanity
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com Previous generations of human beings competed for some pretty predictable things, things like land, money, mates, titles, and occasionally even six-foot-tall shiny plastic trophies that invariably ended up in some local thrift shop, as if granny, who was in there looking for a gingham dress, was going to want
Tips From Twenty-Nine Years Of Marriage
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com Right about the time this column goes to press, Dana and I will be celebrating our twenty-ninth wedding anniversary. This, of course, leads me to quip that we got married when we were ages eight and nine, respectively. In seriousness, though, it is really hard for me to wrap
Let’s Hear It For “Boring, Everyday Christianity”
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com While social media is often an unpleasant and unproductive thing, a robber of time and a dampener of spirits, one positive thing about it is that it can help identify those who are certifiably crazy while posing as Christian leaders. Without social media, I would likely have never known,
A Brief Summary Of The Canonization Of Scripture
To begin with, let us define the word canonization. It means to test something by a set rule or standard, to ascertain it as genuine. This is obviously of great importance when it concerns the holy Scripture; we need to have confidence that we have the Word of God, and that we have all of the Word of God, and that there is nothing in the Bible except the word of God. The 39 books of the Old Testament were
Let’s Change The World
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com As I begin writing this column, the sky is blue, the sky is bright, and the few clouds overhead are all wispy and impossibly white. Usually, on a day like this, my mood is as bright as the sky itself. Usually. But today, I must confess to having a
Valentine’s Guidance From An Amateur Expert
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com For those jaded souls who believe that Valentine’s Day is a modern event most likely invented by Hallmark in a display of crass commercialism, please allow me to set your minds at ease. Valentine’s Day legends actually go back as far as the third century A.D. Mind you, those
Pastor Ready Or Not
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com I am often asked when I started writing. I generally get some raised eyebrows when I reply, “As soon as I could spell.” But it is literally true. As a Dr. Suess-raised kid, I was writing short stories using mostly mono-syllabic words from the time I was very young.
Never Dive In The Stupid End Of Relationships
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com The first thing I wrestle with when taking issue with anyone is whether or not to name them. Sometimes, in so doing, you only add to their notoriety. And in this particular instance, that would undoubtedly be the case and is exactly the thing that the man in question
Sanctity Of Life Sunday
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com January 22, 2023, is a very precious day birthed out of a horrible day. Sanctity of Life Sunday marks each anniversary of the Roe V. Wade decision that led to such catastrophic loss of life, made worse by the fact that they were and are the lives of the
A Picture Perfect Representative Of The American Left
Policies, a person must have policies. By this, I mean that there need to be certain practical guidelines that help us order our days. We need to have certain things pre-decided, things that help us know how to spend our scarce time, what things to get involved in, and what things to simply ignore. No one has time for everything, right? Therefore, the wise person makes up his or her mind what will receive their attention and what will be
Changing The World A Tiny Bit At A Time
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, NC, a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. His books are available on Amazon and at www.wordofhismouth.com To say that Will Rogers is still big in Oklahoma would be an understatement of about fifteen feet, judging from the size of his statue in the Will Rogers Archway just outside of Vinita, Oklahoma. He seems almost bigger than the town itself, somehow, though there is actually a