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There may have been a time in a person’s willful life, a time before he believed, when the whole of the Christian story seemed...

As it is my habit to wake early and pray and absorb my devotion, when on a recent unsuspecting morning I was reading with an intent to...

In my mind, I’m traveling across the South Carolina sand hills, driving the backroads passing landmarks so familiar each barely receives...

Images appear intermittently in my mind. A confluence of past years merge within me to form this feeling I call Christmas. I confess the...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Life changed after...

There I sat, thoughtless, blank, depleted of any idea for this column. It wasn’t so much writer’s block but more that the bathtub I call...

Tollierville was a particular type of town, populated with a particular type of people. Each lived in a particular type of house...

I have come to accept the varied interpretations of Biblical reading, even when different and of apparent contradiction and not of my...

Some years ago when I dedicated myself to a life of daily prayer and devotion, after a time, I became quite discouraged. This may seem an...

There are those who say it is time for God to come and right the wrongs and sufferings of this world. The thought goes like this: God is...

The day promised sunshine. Robert and Barbara left the house early to allow for stops along the way and enjoy the views. Red Bald...

Which lie do you prefer? The one protecting a friend or loved one? Maybe, the one that hurts the intended. How about the lie you tell...

Sometimes I doubt. Searching the other day for two AA batteries, I found a couple of loose ones in the tool drawer. Of course, I wondered...

Walking into the bookshop, the man asked the proprietor, “Do you have a Bible?” “Yes. Try the next room on the middle shelf. However,...

The preacher settled in for his first sermon at his last church. He had reached an age when life imparted its truth and he now felt...

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it.” Those words, from my mother, take me to an admission and a time when I knew little. These words...

Today, we live in a world of our own making. While man remains the sole proprietor and determiner of his identity, while he unties God’s...

(Note: The following fictional conversation is based on George MacDonald’s sermon “The temptation in the wilderness.” Quotes from the...

My name is Jim McArthur. Sixty-three-years-old now, I was born to William and Ann in 1958 in St. Andrews Parish, South Carolina in the...

Ivo Clevenger showed early signs of his gift. Good with his hands, Ivo could conceive and build with wood what anyone described to him....