Larry

Guitar Playing Heritage

For me, playing guitar has always been a family thing. Both my father and grandfather before me played guitar. I’ve known this for a long time, but I wasn’t familiar with the instruments they played when they were young. Going through some old photographs recently, I found two pictures of them playing guitars I’d never seen before. The first picture is of my grandfather, Richard McKinley Roosevelt Overton (how’s that for a name?!?), posed with his brother Jesse. Great uncle…

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Granddad's Bible

Granddad’s Bible

Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2015 by Larry G. Overton The Bible I am holding in my hands in this picture (which is also the banner picture for the “My Faith” section of my website) has a great deal of significance for me. This significance is due in part to the type and age of this particular Bible. However, its significance to me is mainly personal and sentimental. This Bible is an early edition of a study Bible published by the…

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“How can you have faith?”

Someone very dear to me once asked me, “How can you have faith?”  Now, just reading that question in print, it can be taken a number of ways. On the face of it, that question sounds like a challenge to my intellect, as in “Come on, Larry, how can you have faith? You’re smarter than that!”  Or perhaps it was an acknowledgement of hardships that I was facing at the time, and the question was as much about a sympathetic…

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Welcome to my website!

Welcome to my website! This is actually not the first time I’ve had a website. But I’m technologically challenged, so others have helped me have an Internet presence. Beth, my beautiful, loving, intelligent, computer savvy wife, started me out with the first incarnation of my website in February of 1998. Wow, 17 years ago this month! Changes in [insert “servers,” “hosts” or whatever the correct computer speak term is here] meant the demise of my site about five years ago.…

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