Our guest blogger today is our associate pastor at Dry Creek, Charlie Bailey.  This is a strong message on marriage entitled,  “The First Marriage.”  It is the second in a marriage and family series he has started. You can follow his blog at http://charbail.blogspot.com/ If you’d like to follow the audio of the message, go to http://www.drycreekbaptist.com/media/sunday Monday, June 13, …

Our latest novel,  A Spent Bullet, will be released soon from Westbow Press.  As a final tune-up for the novel, we’ll be sharing the book chapter by chapter.  Your kudos and criticisms are welcome. Enjoy! Curt Iles A Spent Bullet A Novel By Curt Iles Part I The Battle for the Bullet “I want the mistakes made down in Louisiana, …

We’re keeping three grandsons this week.  (Clay and Robin are in Mali, Africa on a mission trip.)  I’m thinking about a deep subject: child rearing. Dr. Benjamin Spock said,  “The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Unused Power I was born during a period of history when many World War I veterans were still alive.  Of all those old men, the one that sticks out was a veteran named Manuel “Curt” Green. Curt Green was one of those country men who had never been anywhere, nor desired to, until World War I broke out.  He traveled …

This heartwarming story is from my friend, Charlene Miller.  Enjoy! A couple of weeks ago I went to a ladies Sunday School Class get together for supper.  After that I headed to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things.  Walking from the van to the store I notice a young woman, standing by her car.  She was dressed nice and …

Joseph Moore comes to America. The Wayfaring Stranger (2007) is my first historical novel.  It fictionlizes the journey of my great-great-great grandfather, Joe Moore, an Irish stowaway who came to the Piney Woods of western Louisiana. This passage tells of his ship entering the Mississippi River and America. Enjoy! He wondered if he would ever see or smell the ocean …

The Swamp It’s Wednesday morning as we all sit or stand in the Swamp‑ all twenty‑five of us.  Now the Swamp is a classic building at Dry Creek.  It is the summer home of our boy staffers.  I recall with fondness the summer twenty years ago I spent in it as staff director.  To all of us guys who’ve worked …

“When we attempt man-sized tasks only, we run the risk of always receiving glory for ourselves.  But when the product of our courage is so magnificent and awesome that everyone must acknowledge this could not be the work of a mere mortal, then God’s glory is on display.” -Missions Mosiac magazine  December 2010 May your dreams for God be so …

“When FDR said,  ‘If a rattlesnake is poised to strike… you don’t wait… you crush its head” I knew we were going to war.”   -Soldier during La. Maneuvers 1941 Pretend you’re a young soldier in 1941. Stuck in Louisiana during weeks of maneuvers in the field.  You’re unsure if war is coming. Or imagine being a teenager during this same …

Just in time for the big wedding: The Loyal Wedding ‘Whither thou goest, I will go; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God.’ -Ruth 1:16 As the “Royal Wedding” of Prince William and Kate Middleton draws mercifully closer, I’ve had my fill. Why are we Americans so enamored by …