February

The other day, I suggested a better way to read scripture is to find what is there, to search for what God intends to reveal to those who...

Sometime ago, around third or fourth grade, I remember being in Sunday school and the teacher asking a question. Eight and nine-year-olds...

It is the desire to call things ours—the desire of company which is not of our kind—company such as, if small enough, you would put in...

It’s six a.m. The train whistle blows, signaling the day’s tasks are demanding my attention and time. The day approaches. Most days begin...

We called our group the “Elite.” The reason for the name is lost in my memory. The name afforded each member no special circumstance...

I can’t believe in a God that instructs to kill. Why Jerome, I think you just admitted there is a God. I thought you were an atheist....

Evident to me during my morning intercessory prayer, I was praying for a happy ending for those I prayed. A moment after, I felt this was...

I went to church this past Sunday. I heard a fine sermon on the essential truth Christ is of the substance of God, One with the Father....

Reading through my devotion on a recent morning, I noticed the writer used a definition of a word while omitting the word’s second...

( Wormwood continues tutoring his young tempter ) Remember Hardtack, conversion does not mean you have lost your patient altogether....

A good Southerner, a word to the wise type, a tried and true sixth sense, get-thee-behind-me you pitch-and-runner Southerner never...

Death stops the body’s work, the soul’s a journeyman.                                                                                    ...

Saeculum “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” ( Matthew 6:21, NKJV). Saeculum. Saeculum? Yes, Saeculum. The end of...

The Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that...

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Bartimaeus, possession is nine tenths of our demise. Fooled by allure, we think possession conveys who we are. How is it we think our...

“And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” (Matthew 6:12).  “For if you forgive men their trespasses,...

Half Harry earned his nickname. Known by everyone in town for half his life, Half Harry never finished anything. No matter what he...

The bell above the doorjamb jingled as Concetta entered the store. Warm air dispensed her shivers. Removing her cap, she shook the...

Underpinning asking and receiving, common with giving thanks, prayer is listening, understanding and submission. Prayer can assert itself...