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Nov 21

‘Peanuts’ archive help

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I am looking for an old “Peanuts” cartoon. Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy are talking, and Charlie (I think) says that the preacher/teacher/etc. says that you should live each day as if it was your last (or, as if the world is about to end). Lucy then runs around, yelling “The world is about to end! Augghhhh!” Linus then turns to Charlie Brown and says, “You know, some philosophies aren’t for everyone.”

I remember this fairly well but would like to get a look at the original comic so that I can refer to it exactly in a sermon I’m writing. Does anyone else recall it?

Sep 14

Hell, and Carlton Pearson

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When I was a student at Oral Roberts University, I went to Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center one Sunday morning to hear Carlton Pearson preach. The sermon is still vivid in my mind, 25 years later. It had to do with Carlton’s childhood as a bed-wetter, and the fact that his grandmother was the only member of the family who would have any physical contact with him after he’d wet the bed. He used his grandmother’s unconditional love as a metaphor for God’s unconditional love of us, and it was powerful and beautiful and brought tears to your eyes.

At the time, Carlton was one of ORU’s favorite alumni — a former member of the singing group which appeared on Oral Roberts’ television program. He was second in the pecking order to Billy Joe Daugherty, another ORU alum, whose church met in the Mabee Center arena on the ORU campus and counted Richard and Lindsey Roberts among its members. (That was before Oral himself had left the United Methodist church.)

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