Author: Jeff Hampton

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Well, it seems I’ve entered the skin-repair phase of my health care journey. It’s time to pay for my youthful carelessness, although back in the day I was just “getting some sunshine.”

My annual visit to the dermatologist indicates I have a couple of bad spots that need to come off, one on the notch at the top of my sternum and the other on top of my left ear. I’m thinking boxer Mike Tyson could take care of my ear in one quick chomp like he did to Evander Holyfield. Anyone remember that?

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

It’s the eternal question; the question of all questions. It’s the question that’s sparked imaginations, delighted, puzzled and terrified humans since the beginning of time: What comes next after this life?

Easter Sunday was a good day to ask the question again, and that’s what we did in our Epiphany class at Wilshire. Led by Abby Adcox, missions and advocacy coordinator, we had a thoughtful discussion about “resurrection” and what it means. We started by reading 1 Corinthians 15:12-20, where Paul, who claimed to have seen the resurrected Christ, laid out the argument that if we believe Christ was raised from the dead, then we will be too, and if Christ was not raised, then our faith is in vain. 

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Last Saturday we had two dozen members of the Autrey family at our home in Garland. It was a family reunion, but in some ways it was a foretaste of heavenly reunions to come.

LeAnn’s mother, Thelma, was the fourth daughter and last child born to Taylor and Ella Autrey in Grayson County, Texas. At 102 years old now, Thelma is the matriarch of a family tree with branches stretching to Illinois, Oregon, the Texas Hill Country and various locations here in North Central Texas. 

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