April

If we are to become God’s children, we are to be undone. The undoing challenges our nature. Humans deceive themselves. What we perceive...

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin To...

One of the bridges a Christian must cross on his way to the new life is the awareness of filtering his Christian beliefs through his own...

Ken Collins writes, To be caught up in such a story, then, to be engaged in this matchless narrative, is an invitation to discovery and...

Christians must wrestle with a question. How? A life devoted to Christ must always in the end put aside this question. Our God is not a...

In South Carolina, down along a branch of the old Dixie Highway, known as the Augusta Road, serenely shouldering the road is Lickville...

Words travel. And by this I mean to say spoken words do not just fall upon someone’s ears, but they also change meanings and can become...

“For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith” (Galatians 5:5). With a wry smile, the old man looked at...

It took a while. Had circumstances meted a different outcome, The Masters golf tournament and Augusta National may have died as but a...

I have become a reader, a departure from my youthful desire to avoid it and the tests that followed at all cost, which I could not. Three...

Those now distant, youthful, washed away days were carefree when my breathing synchronized with other heartbeats running and playing...

Puzzling! And my intent is to mean perplexing while also creating a new verb as in puzzling – the act of solving puzzles. Example: “I was...

When the little boy went out to play, after his chores were done, he would go into the field and visit the tree. He loved to lie beneath...

I live in the shadows, the shaded remembrances of my past, persistent guideposts and framers of the person I was, who I became and still...

“ But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy...

I’ve heard it called the Easter story. To do so, I think, relegates it to a place and a time and a past, sets it apart as though it lived...

“I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong – that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged...

It’s dangerous to look back, to think where you were then and where you are now, to gloat a bit over the idea you are better than you...

In a more naïve and simplistic time, when miniscule pains hovered and cast their shadow large over an otherwise carefree existence, when...

Quite incidentally and unknowingly, mimicking professional golfer’s swings when we were kids, we stumbled into a key step in the habit...