June

God doesn’t have a wonderful plan for your life. Your life is for His plan. Paraphrase from J.D. Walt   Desire is a two-sided coin best...

We live in a world of against . This means there is ample ground for peacemaking. Where, then, are the sons of God, those who risk...

Bunkers, if they be good bunkers, and bunkers of strong character, refuse to be disregarded, and insist on asserting themselves; they do...

Memory is convenient if we are to be truthful. I remember well having to fulfill my science requirement in college. The one solid memory I have from taking this class is the third law of thermodynamics which states (in non-scientific language) that everything moves from a state of order to disorder. I will not try to explain it. But in life, I have found this to be true. Life seems to be a disordered endeavor in which we spend an inordinate amount of energy attempting order.

God is a no longer God. In this faith journey in which we have engaged and set upon our hearts a sincere desire to know God, to ask of...

It didn’t happen overnight, but I began to hear those words press air I thought never would. Phrases like, “Well, when I was your age” or...

“ The answer to that nonsense is that, if what you call your ‘faith’ in Christ does not involve taking the slightest notice of what He...

“Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like...

Parcel to the montage of my life experiences are those bright days before sorrow cast its gray on my little niche. Each happy remembrance...

Dear Lunastelle, Much time from my last letter has passed. News of your growth in the faith encourages me. I, too, continue to gain...

Among the Erinyes, the great king, Semnote, said to his servant, Xenos, “Let us prepare a great feast for all the land and invite all who...

I was struggling the other day to advance this essay toward completion. I found myself rumbling through my mind and the house at the same...

The temptation continues “Hardtack, every tempter always fails on his first try or two. Humans are fickle creatures. Should you think...

The following is an imagined continuation of the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: Wormwood spoke with authority. “Hardtack, Screwtape...

Age has thrust upon me a ripening. I’ve reached a stage when stories begin with some variation of the word “ago,” as in some time ago,...

The other day, reading John Wesley’s three rules for living, the first of which is “Do no harm,” I understood the many difficulties in...

Given a box with a present inside, each confirmand repeated their vows. Next, the preacher said, “Inside your box is a present, a...

Traveling across the back roads of South Carolina on a recent trip, the missive on the church sign caught my attention. It read: The...

Lean in and listen my friends, I’m going to tell you a story remembered, a story told to me in a sermon by the Reverend Al Turnell.  ...

In County Lincolnshire, in the village of Spilsby between the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Fenland, for centuries told there lived a...