During this time of year, most of God's people become acutely aware that we do not fit in with this world. Occasionally, we are reminded so by friends, relatives, and even strangers. Our obedience to God and rejection of the ways of this world may cause us to be considered as "misfits", but it is evidence that we have embraced a kingdom to come. Rick Beam discusses biblical examples of misfits, whom we should be emulating.

Rick Beam

(1950-2024)

Rick Beam was born and grew up in northeast Mississippi. He graduated from Ambassador College Big Sandy, Texas, in 1972, and was ordained into the ministry in 1975. From 1978 until his death in 2024, he pastored congregations in the south, west and midwest. His final pastorate was for the United Church of God congregations in Rome, (Georgia), Gadsden (Alabama) and Chattanooga (Tennessee).