Walt Albritton Articles

Alter Call | Jan. 2, 2025

You can make a new beginning The calendar – what a marvelous idea! One year ends. A new year begins. I love it!It offers us the opportunity to do two healthy things: let go of the past and make a new beginning.How do you let go of the past? You discard stuff you don’t...

Alter Call | Dec. 24, 2024

Recalling joy in the Cumberland Mountains OPINION — Living a life filled with love must begin in the home with the family. A preacher cannot share authentic love with others if his family views him as a “street angel and a house devil.” Fortunately, despite our...

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The challenge of the unexpected OPINIONGenealogy mattered to Matthew. So he began his gospel by tracing Jesus’ ancestors from Abraham to Joseph, thus proving Jesus Christ to be both the Son of David and the Son of Abraham. As the son of Abraham, he is a Jew. As the...

Alter Call | Dec. 12, 2024

A man I wish I had known If I were to name ten people I wish I had known, Carl Sandburg’s name would be on my list. I would love to have sat on the porch of his Blue Ridge Mountain home and talked to him about his life and his poetry.Years ago Dean and I belonged to a...
Every Person Needs Help

Every Person Needs Help

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Years ago, I heard an unusual testimony by a man who was born with no arms. He said his mother dressed him until he...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Lesson of the Sunflowers

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Since the heinous Russian invasion of Ukraine, much has been written about sunflowers. That’s because the...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Smorgasbord Bible

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Once there was only the King James version. Now there are dozens of different translations of the Bible. Many...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

Wrestling with Weaknesses

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — As I have grown older, I have grown weaker physically. It is one of those problems that I call the fleas that come...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

I Need Jesus

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Way back in the ‘50s, the Methodists often sent young preachers, who were still college or seminary students, out in...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

Keeping Hope Alive

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — There are bewildering questions for which I have no answers. Why do men suffer? If God is good, why does He allow us...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Main Thing

By WALTER ALBRITTON The popular Baptist preacher Peter Lord got an “Amen” from me when I heard him insist that churches need to “make the main thing...

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