Jim nabors golly4/14/2023 ![]() Gomer was a naive country boy from Mayberry North Carolina who joined the Marines and Andy went with him for the induction and helped the clueless Gomer get accepted. The character of Gomer Pyle was portrayed by Jim Nabors and he left The Andy Griffith Show in the 4th season in an episode entitled Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. The show ran from 1964 to 1969 and was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. The show has a local connection for me because of Frank Sutton. If you don't, I guess you'll have to wait and see what pans out and hope you're not wrong.I watched a few episodes this weekend. Let God be the judge in all matters, if you believe in God. So is God wrong or the Bible wrong? One has to decide for themself and should try to find a way to stop judging anyone since God forbids that also, whoever we are and whatever we're judging. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." The Bible clearly says that same sex union bears a penalty with God. Romans 1:27 says, "In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. They're both judgmental but Christians are now being judged and hated for living the Bible. It's just as judgmental for people to bash decent Christians as those who hate gays. Mature Christians aren't trying to hate anyone who disagrees with them. There are immature and mature Christians and they live very differently. This post is republished with permission from his Facebook page. Gregory Hayes of Richmond, Va., is a retired clergyman and former district superintendent from the West Virginia Annual Conference. I'll spend my time offering thanks to God for Jim "Gomer" Nabors, whose golden voice helped me find my own. The culture warriors can go ahead without me. Some will use his name to ignite yet another skirmish in the never-ending culture wars that sap our nation's greatness more than any external foe ever will. I know that Jim Nabors, a gay man who was forced to remain closeted for most of his life, will be both celebrated and vilified during the next few days. " Indeed He does! Only God could transform the usage of an unwelcome nickname into a life-changing and life-defining event. William Cowper coined the well-known phrase: "God moves in a mysterious way. Acceptance into the America's Youth in Concert program came next, with performances at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a European tour. Knierim's help, I was accepted into a fine arts camp the next summer. I was kidding around, trying to sound like Jim Nabors. I'm just imitating Gomer Pyle." Sure, I played guitar and sang a little in church, but had never used a supported tone. With a look on his face I have never forgotten, he asked a fateful question: "Do you know you can sing?" ![]() Going along with the not-so-humorous joke, I asked the teacher to start playing "Oh, Holy Night." I sang the first line with something approaching a supported - some call it operatic - tone. We agreed, and ran through the usual songs: "Rudolph," "Silent Night," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting Over an Open Fire)," etc. Knierim, the teacher, asked us if we wanted to sing carols. Three weeks in, I was allowed to drop Algebra II and join a class called "Introduction to the Organ." I could play piano a little, so I enjoyed the class. I never liked math because I'm allergic to repetitive homework. Everything was strange, from the area to the accents to the course work. When people laugh at you, laugh with them. I added Gomer's catchphrases "Gah-all-lee" (Golly) and "Shazam!" to my vocabulary. When you're a preacher's kid, you learn to endure things. It didn't take long for a classmate to dub me "Gomer." I wasn't crazy about the nickname, but I endured it. "Low and slow" is a good description, and I have a cassette tape somewhere to prove it. I had grown up in the coalfields of southern WV, and my accent was more pronounced back then. I was skinny as a rail, nearsighted, wearing the ugliest glasses ever seen in that part of the world, and talked funny. I began my junior year of high school that fall. In June of 1970, my family moved to Weirton, a town in the northern panhandle of WV about 25 minutes from Pittsburgh.
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