We Ordained a Man
Forty-six years and six months after preaching my first ordination sermon, I may have preached my last, and who would have ever thought it would be like it was.
In 1978, I was the preacher for the ordination of George Thomas (G.T.) Moody (1923-2013). My father. He started adult life as a math teacher in northern Kentucky but got pulled into church work at the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church of Lexington (after turning down an invitation from J. Frank Norris to join him in Ft. Worth, Texas). In 1960, he was called to the First Baptist Church of Murray, Kentucky, a much more mainstream Southern Baptist congregation. There, I was licensed to gospel work as a teenager; that was 1965. I returned in 1977, following my …
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