Comments on: Why We’re Staying in Abilene

By: Ryan Porche

Ryan Porche — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:59:34 +0000

Hey Mike. I’d love to see an iPhone pic of the view from your office. Thinking of you with chocolate pie this week! And jealous of the new project in your back yard!

By: Coping

Coping — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:24:14 +0000

Scottie (Lingelbach) David was a teacher in Neosho and was a good friend of your Grandmother Bush.

By: Karen Heflin

Karen Heflin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Thanks for the fabulous list, Mike! Now that we have made Abilene our home (as of 6 weeks ago), it was refreshing and encouraging to read! We are glad your family will still be in town!
Blessings!

By: Roger Butner

Roger Butner — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:39:11 +0000

Hey Mike. This is off-topic, but I thought with your upcoming work with Landon, this blog post regarding online social media would be interesting:

http://www.poptech.org/blog/index.php/archives/4438

By: Geezer

Geezer — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:45:27 +0000

During my senior year at ACC (and my first year of marriage) my wife and I were driving back to Abilene after having spent the weekend in Austin. The water pump went out of old car and we were stuck by the side of the road outside Brownwood after dark. A family with a couple kids in a car older than ours stopped and took us to our apartment in Abilene. In that era poorer folks showing kindness to others in need was commonplace in Abilene. I could tell so many stories about people like the Baptist auto mechanic fixing my old car and hardly charging me for the parts. There were a lot of nice folks there and I still have fond memories of the place, even if it is a little bleak and dusty.

By: clint

clint — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:36:54 +0000

Brad,
I remember the day Abbey came to Abilene. While in the waiting room we watched Texas beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Now her mean father has taken her to Michigan in the hopes of brainwashing our natural born Texan. I fear for her well being. I would appreciate any intervention you can muster.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:10:15 +0000

Brad,

I think Mary’s explanation is perfect. I am originally from the Northwest…. Mary was right!

By: Brad Stevens

Brad Stevens — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:26:43 +0000

Years ago a dear sister in Christ, Mary Pervier, told me that God had to put a lot of very nice people in Abilene to offset the climate and surroundings. That has always stuck with me. There seems to be a crossroads between Abilene and my hometown St. Louis. My wife graduated from ACU [it was ACC back then]. Our first youth minister, Stanley Shipp moved to St. Louis from Abilene in 1970 and brought a whole bunch of young people over the years with him. My in-laws moved to Christian Village and lived out there final days there. They are buried in Abilene. My daughter graduated from ACU. My son-in-law and daughter lived there when he coached the men’s basketball team for ACU. And, my granddaughter was born there. I have spent a large portion of my life traveling back and forth from St. Louis to Abilene. I think it feels like going from Nazareth to Jerusalem.

By: Mike Stroud

Mike Stroud — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:52:57 +0000

Mike,

We don’t know one another, but I enjoy your blog and have long appreciated your writing ministry. Best wishes on your transition from the pulpit. As a former minister to college students and a full-time “discipling minister” now, I’ve bought and used dozens and dozens of copies of your book “Righteousness Inside Out” for discipling groups. A very readable and practical help as a companion study for Matthew 5 – 7. I now direct a discipling ministry here in middle Tennessee – The Timothy Network. I’ve included a link to your blog on our website.

Make disciples!

Mike Stroud
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:57:31 +0000

Gary H – thank you for your gentle consideration. I do think we both know where we’re coming from – two different directions – and out of respect for Mike and his blog, how about we shelve this for a possible face-to-face enjoyable tete a tete in the future? And again, bless you for your considerate gentleness in recognizing our political differences of opinion. What a pleasure to know we are joint heirs in Jesus our Christ!! o/

By: L

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:58:19 +0000

Mike,

Did you know Scottie Lingelbach in Neosho, Mo.? She is in Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation.”

By: Gary H

Gary H — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:00:47 +0000

Kathy, I’m concerned that if I tried to make a substantive comment at this point, it would be based on me misunderstanding where you are coming from, which I certainly don’t want to do. Could you restate your original point a bit more directly?

qb, I suppose such a determination would require an examination of one’s motives and intentions, which are often rather mysterious things.

By: qb

qb — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:23:50 +0000

Given what print journalism fancies itself to be, how does one distinguish an ambition “to be the newspaper of record” from an implicit claim to be a paragon of journalistic objectivity?

Just wondering,

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:08:47 +0000

Gary H

Well! Now we’re both confused.
What advertising slogan and what honest communication?

By: Gary H

Gary H — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:56:26 +0000

Kathy, I appreciate your suggestion but am rather confused over your apparent equation of an advertising slogan with honest communication.