by Lonnie Richardson | Oct 15, 2016 | Life Lessons, Relational
I’d promised myself that I was not going to beleaguer the fact that I’d had open heart surgery with triple bypass. I lied to myself. That occurred seven weeks ago yesterday. Today I got up and went to the gym with my wife, Cheryl, and we worked out together on the treadmill, elliptical, and stationary recumbent bike.
by Lonnie Richardson | Sep 20, 2016 | Life Lessons, Relational
FollowFollowFollowFollow The heart of the matter is the state of the heart.What does that mean? No, it is not intended to be a play on words, a tongue twister, or a philosophical mind puzzle game. It has nothing to do with my recent heart surgery from which I am...
by Lonnie Richardson | Aug 17, 2016 | Life Lessons, Relational
FollowFollowFollowFollow Most recently it has been brought to my attention, on more than one occasion, that I am not a young man anymore. WHAT!!?? Who said? When did that happen? It is only now that I have awakened during my fifty-fourth year and realized that time...
by Lonnie Richardson | Feb 24, 2014 | Life Lessons, Relational
FollowFollowFollowFollow Yesterday I heard a powerful testimony that centered around the simple context of identity. It was a testimony of salvation tainted with spoils of a life slowly changing because there was a lack of dicipleship which lead to a confused state of...
by Lonnie Richardson | Jan 4, 2014 | Life Lessons, Relational
FollowFollowFollowFollow It seems that people want to make more out of the discipleship process than what it actually is. Certainly, there are various phases of discipleship depending upon the spiritual maturity of the individual. How does one get to be spiritually...
by Lonnie Richardson | Nov 14, 2013 | Life Lessons, Relational
FollowFollowFollowFollow I have been pondering a few weeks as I have been working to put this site together as to what the topic for the first post should be. It is something that I have wrestled with and prayed about to some great extent. Some of the posts in...
I grew up in Northeast Louisiana in a very rural area five miles east of Kilbourne. I work as a Licensed Practical Nurse in a nursing home providing care for people with various forms of dementia. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Religion from Liberty University and I am an ordained Deacon at our church, The Gathering Church, in South Knoxville, TN. Additionally, I am an ordained Minister of the Gospel by the same church....read more