I have a habit of calling what many call "The Old Testament" the "First Testament." And I do that because too many in the Church treat the books in the front of our Bible as either unimportant or not as valuable as the New Testament. I confess I've had a few folks get mad at me…
Growing up as a young man in the 1970's meant I heard some of the best music in the world! One song I remember that got the whole car singing along was the anthem "United we Stand" by the Brotherhood of Man. The chorus was "For united we stand, divided we fall. And if our…
I'm convinced everyone wants to know God. Everyone. Even the most radical atheist or hedonist wants to know God above everything else. In fact, I'm convinced a man is an atheist because he is so angry that the God he longs for at the very core of his being doesn't exist and it's this existential…
Winston Churchill once said "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime, in your life."
There was a man who use to take great pleasure in insulting me. He seemed to go out of his way to do it and he had something of a reputation of being a bully. It use…
It's amazing how quick folks get upset if they feel like they are being bossed around. I had a couple come to see me once about how to raise their child and they informed me they had decided to not say anything about God to the child so that he could make up his mind…
Every time I see the words "Good Grief" I think of good old Charlie Brown. That may be a generational thing, but it's the first thing that pops into my mind. But, if I dwell on this word "grief" long enough, I start a process in my heart and mind that usually leads me to…
That famous Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard once said "Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different."
Ha! funny. But the humor contains a…
"We must speak out! We CANNOT be silent! Silence makes evil possible!" We hear this a lot nowadays, and I confess, I have great sympathy for this message. I'm a preacher, after all. And the public and fearless declaration of the Gospel is normal for we Christians through history.
But, as usual, a one sided perspective…
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St. Anthony the Great once said "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'"
Of course, that "time" St. Anthony warned us about has been with us since our mother and father believed…