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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.

“Let thy house be a meeting-house for the wise; and powder thyself in the dust of their feet; and drink their word with thirstiness.” Yose ben Yoezer   The above quote is from the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish Rabbinic thought. There is a current, popular religious saying derived from this quote. It says, “be covered in the dust of the rabbi.” The saying is both instructional and instructive. Instructional in a simple manner, we are to meet in our house, include the wise

Everything is an affair of the Spirit. If God has a way, then that is the only way. Every little thing in which you would have your own way, has a mission for your redemption; and He will treat you as a naughty child until you take your Father’s way for yours. George MacDonald   There arises within the joy of Christ finding His beloved a desire to know more of the person of Christ, the meaning of what He said, a desire yearning for a roadmap in the life ahead. Such a desir

The sign reads, “Put some South in ya mouth” but only Tuesday through Saturday night. The sign promotes the Southern Smoke Barbeque and Catering Company, a restaurant I pass daily. Southerners do a lot of communicating with food, harkening to our primitive and primary natures. In our gumbos and pecan pies, our hoppin’ John and hog jowls, our fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits, we express an undefinable love residing in our soul. Southerners are a religious people. We can

The Lowcountry, a geographical place with mysteries seeping toward consciousness, beckons you. A thread runs through this land and its...

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...

For anyone who chooses to absorb and take seriously the change our awakening urges, the mirror into which we must peer, the one called...

“It is in this solitude That we discover that being Is more important than having, And that we are worth more Than the result of our...

“Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea” (Psalm...

It is righteousness—not of words, not of theories, but in being, that is, in vital action, which alone is the prince of power of the...

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...