Created on Monday, 24 December 2012 / Pastor's Heart
Tags: Christmas, Buckingham, home, mystical longing Editor's Note: This article appeared in the December 1982 issue of Charisma Magazine and was written by Jamie Buckingham, former senior pastor at Melbourne Tabernacle Church in Melbourne, Fla. Buckingham ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Spirit, world, remains, Buckingham, culture, missionary The head of a large missionary organization told me that they are being sued by two of their members. These people had earlier dedicated their lives to missions. Now they have various ailments. One man ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute The head of a large missionary organization told me that they are being sued by two of their members. These people had earlier dedicated their lives to missions. Now they have various ailments. One man ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham During my senior year in high school a group of women somewhere in the nation started a movement to have all competitive team sports—especially football—removed from public schools. ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Eleven years ago, my daddy died. It was Sunday noon. We had just come in from church and the phone was ringing. It was my mother in Vero Beach, Fla. "Daddy has just gone to be with ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham I was fresh out of seminary and the new pastor of a Baptist church in a little South Carolina town when Martin Luther King Jr. led his famous march from Montgomery to Selma, Ala. We ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham No book influenced my young life more than the Boy Scout handbook. In it I found a wonderful world of semaphore flags, sheepshanks, clove hitches, lean-tos and reflector ovens. It was ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham The first trip I made to Czechoslovakia was 18 years ago. I was there with a Dutch Bible smuggler. Be-sides distributing Bibles, we attended underground prayer meetings. One of these ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Everybody I know, when they consider the only alternative, wants to get older. Well, my daughter, Sandy, doesn't want to get older. But she never has accepted that we can't halt time. ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute ... 200 mph—and then uses it as a sermon illustration the next Sunday. It gives me great pleasure when I beat him. I sometimes play with Harvey Hester. Dr. Hester is a psychologist who sometimes, just as I'm ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Aside from disobeying and failing God, the one thing I fear most is becoming phony. Our American world, in particular, has spawned far too many phony Christians. They are easy to spot, ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham According to my friend Ollie Swenson, who also lives in the country, the second happiest day in his life was the day someone gave him a goat. The happiest day was the day the goat ran ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Nothing had changed—even though it was all different. We sat up late, talking, just as we had done 10 years ago. My wife, Jackie, Dan and Viola Malachuk, and myself. Outside winter ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham I never heard my father and mother argue. I now know they often disagreed. But they considered it bad breeding to argue in front of their children. It was an unreal world for a kid ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham I had known for several months that my body could not maintain the pace. The time was December 1979—10 years ago. The pressures in our church had brought us to another crisis stage. ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham When I was a child, our family made an annual pilgrimage to visit our "kissin' cousins" in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky. I loved the beaten biscuits and fried chicken for breakfast. ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute We continue to honor author/pastor Jamie Buckingham with a month-long tribute on the Ministry Today website. Before his untimely death in February 1992, Jamie served as editor of the magazine for several ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham I stood in my den last August, stunned, watching my TV. There was Jim Bakker being half-dragged, half-led from his lawyer's office in Charlotte, N.C. His hair disheveled, his shirt ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Well, it finally happened. I was on the platform during the early service that Sunday morning. Although I was not scheduled to preach, I was directing the service, Jimmy Smith, our ... [ +++ ]
Tags: Jamie Buckingham tribute by Jamie Buckingham Dear Bonnie: Your call from Tulsa, Okla., telling us that you are expecting your first baby has filled the old home place with joy. Your mom—and your brothers and sisters—are ecstatic. ... [ +++ ]