There Is None Righteous

By Jim Reynolds

Which side of the barbed wire prison fences are the bad guys? Likewise, on the outside of those fences who are the good guys? This is an insightful true story of how a rag-tag minimum security prison slow pitch softball team in the Blue Ridge Mountains entered into a small city softball league as an experiment into integrating inmates back into the community and how these unseemly men persevered, triumphed and won the respect and acceptance of the whole community: always remembering: “…There is none righteous, no, not one:” (Romans 3:10).

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664269088

Jim Reynolds

Jim writes primarily for the “streets” by making scripture come alive with intensity and straightforwardness which, at times, lands him in straights in some circles and being embraced in others. Jim earned a BS and MA from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, and a MDIV from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. A widower, he lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with family.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-6642-6909-5 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022911180

WestBow Press rev. date:  06/15/2022

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Epilogue

There is none that doeth good, no, not

one… for that all have sinned:

Romans 3:12; 5:12

Introduction

Not long ago a father and mother called their two children, ages twelve and ten, in for a serious talk: Your mother and I have decided it is time to talk to the two of you about your lack of worldly insight. He paused to see if the boy and girl were paying the required attention needed for this discussion: He then continued, We’ve noticed for a long time now that neither of you have ever lied to us; nor stolen anything; and we suspect you have never cheated anyone. Most of all, we have noticed you haven’t rebelled or even ever been angry towards us or anyone else.

The father most seriously continued: Therefore, your mother and I have decided tomorrow she will take you to the library to get some books that will teach you how to lie; how to steal, cheat and most of all how to rebel: or at least how to get angry.

The next day at the library with the two children at her side, she asked the librarian where she could find books on how to teach children to lie, steal, cheat and become angry. Oh, those would be on the self-help aisle, answered the librarian satisfactorily. However, the mother could not find any books that would help in teaching the