Archives
- 2009.11.18: NORTHWESTERN WILL KEEP ME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
- 2009.11.03: MAYO CLINIC COMES THROUGH FOR MY HEART'S SAKE
- 2009.10.22: MAYO MOMENTS POSTPONE DATE FOR HEART SURGERY
- 2009.10.07: THE PUMP GAVE JESSIE RAMIREZ' FAMILY A LIFETIME OF JOY
- 2009.09.26: I WISH THE LORD WOULD SAVE THE SUN-TIMES AHEAD OF ME
- 2009.08.30: I'M NOT AFRAID TO DIE. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
- 2009.08.16: SOMETIMES, EVEN THE INSURED HAVE TO FIGHT FOR CARE
- 2009.08.09: I'M SPENDING MY UNHAPPY 66TH BIRTHDAY IN THE HOSPITAL.
- 2009.08.07: BACK SURGERY NEXT AS PROSTATE CANCER SUBSIDES.
- 2009.07.22: HERE COMES MY MOST SERIOUS SURGERY YET. HELP ME LORD JESUS.
- 2009.07.08: ELIZABETH THINKS CHRISTIANS ARE WRONG FOR SEEING DOCTORS
- 2009.06.29: THANK GOD FOR 41 YEARS OF MARRIAGE TO MY HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART
- 2009.06.21: A FATHER IN PRAISE OF HIS KIDS' MOTHER
- 2009.06.13: IN MY SMACKDOWN WITH DEATH, GOD'S GIVING ME THE VICTORY
- 2009.05.30: THANK YOU JESUS!!! DEATH THREAT TONED DOWN.
- 2009.05.01: LEAVE ME 'LONE NOW, DOUBT! I AIN'T PLAYIN' WITCHU!
- 2009.04.20: YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
- 2009.04.05: DOCTORS TELL ME I HAVE EIGHT MONTHS TO LIVE UNLESS......
- 2009.03.19: My Dear Daughter Just Got Laid Off. Lord, Give Us More Grace And Mercy!
- 2009.03.12: Imagine Yourself Having To Say Farewell To Your Heart.....Great God!
- 2009.02.26: Mama Died Much Younger, So Why Should I Complain?
- 2009.02.08: I Know I'm Dying, Children, But I Ain't Dead Yet......
- 2009.01.21: Did You Also Cry Just A Teeny Weeny On Tuesday? Be Honest.
- 2009.01.19: Beware! Faith Without Works Will Doom Obama And America.
- 2009.01.05: Never Forget Mama And Always Thank God For Her
- 2009.01.01: Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross And Life Will Be Fine In 2009
- 2008.12.24: Is This My Last Christmas? No!!! Death, Get Outta My Face!
- 2008.12.12: I'm Tired And Weary But I Can't Quit Because God Is Still Working On Me
- 2008.11.26: I Got A Right To Shout And Dance On This Thanksgiving day
- 2008.11.14: Pneumonia Evicted After Unwelcomed Visit
- 2008.11.04: Thank You Jesus!!!! And You Know Why.
- 2008.10.30: My Best Friend Has Died And I Feel Guilty
- 2008.10.16: JOB! JOBS! JOBS! America's heart is weak for lack of JOBS!
- 2008.09.28: My blessed comeback begins slowly but surely
- 2008.09.20: Hallelujah! I'm back to work.
- 2008.09.12: Heart surgery landed me on insurance companies' death row
- 2008.09.03: I want to return to work so badly that I could.....scream
- 2008.08.28: America's healing starts with you and me, not Obama
- 2008.08.23: Lord, please forgive me for breaking down and crying Saturday morning
- 2008.08.17: Pain, pain, go away.....But nevertheless....
- 2008.08.04: Back from an Hawaiian paradise vacation...
- 2008.07.26: Randy Pausch gave dying a happy face
- 2008.07.17: Daddy came back from the dead
- 2008.07.10: Best wishes from high school classmates
- 2008.06.29: 40 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart
- 2008.06.24: I'm fighting to live while others are fighting to die
- 2008.06.17: This blog reaches a proud milestone
- 2008.06.16: Attended NBA Finals just in case
- 2008.06.11: A healing for variety of reasons
- 2008.06.08: Healing train is picking up steam
- 2008.06.04: Never too late when Dr. Doctor Jesus is involved
- 2008.06.03: Easing back into action by God's grace
- 2008.05.29: Yes, God is real and still healing.
- 2008.05.24: A healing in the midst of holy harvest
- 2008.05.22: One surgery down, ??? to go.........Praise God!
- 2008.05.20: Lacy Banks on Comcast SportsNet
- 2008.05.19: Prayer, pills, prayer, radiation seeds and more prayer
- 2008.05.18: Love, marriage and healing--launching into the deep
- 2008.05.14: The Increasing High Cost of Decreasing Health Care
- 2008.05.10: Why Choose A Public Healing?
- 2008.05.09: Hallelujah! My Healing's Already Underway!
- 2008.05.07: Healing Journey Starts In The Church
- 2008.05.05: Banks battles two cancers and bad heart
Monthly Archives
Categories
- Add categoryLower Back surgery
- Lower back surgery
- Brain cancer
- Fighting cancer and heart failure
- Heart failure
- Prostate cancer
Category Monthly Archives
- Brain cancer: May 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: November 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: August 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: July 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: June 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: May 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: April 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: March 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: February 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: January 2009
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: December 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: November 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: October 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: September 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: August 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: July 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: June 2008
- Fighting cancer and heart failure: May 2008
- Heart failure: November 2009
- Heart failure: October 2009
- Heart failure: September 2009
- Heart failure: April 2009
- Heart failure: March 2009
- Heart failure: October 2008
- Heart failure: September 2008
- Heart failure: May 2008
- Prostate cancer: May 2008
Lacy J. Banks
Lacy J. Banks, 65, has been a Sun-Times sportswriter/columnist for 36 years and a Baptist preacher for 56 years. He has preached at more than 100 different churches in the Chicago area. A native of Lyon, Miss., Banks graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in French and he served three years in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Naval officer. Lacy and wife Joyce have been married 40 years and have three daughters and five grandchildren. Among beats Banks has covered for the Sun-Times are the Bulls, Fire, defunct Sting, Blackhawks, Wolves, Cubs, defunct Hussle, Rush, Sky, college football and basketball and pro boxing.
