RHETT-orical: musing about Faith, Family, and Freedom

If we could only look upon a difficult crisis as an occasion of bringing out, on our behalf, the sufficiency of divine grace, it would enabl...

The church’s engagement with the culture involves a host of issues, controversies, and decisions–but no issue defines our current cultural c...

One of the great obstacles to our spiritual maturity is our feelings!  We live in a day where feelings are often exalted as good indicato...

In his little book The Red Sea Rules , Robert Morgan shares the testimony of Darlene Rose, missionary to New Guinea.  She and her husband ...

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can under...

            All I could do was stand at a distance.    My wife had been in labor all day, and for the past two hours had pushed like a cha...

I told my children that next week I would be at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers' Conference . I explained, "There will ...

As I plan for worship tomorrow, I am thinking about the many godly mothers, grandmothers, aunts, friends, and godly women out there this we...

  I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  - Abraham Lincoln

I talked yesterday from Acts 6:1-7 about the subtle attack of distraction that could have sidetracked the early church.  It is ever-so e...

When I was a boy, we went to church every Sunday morning unless someone was sick.  If I was sick, either Mom or Dad stayed home with me, an...

Acts 6:1-7 The tiniest events sometimes cause great problems.   Again and again a church has warded off a frontal attack only to be...

Great article.  Read it here.

Adrian Rogers or Charles Stanley (I can't remember which) once said that he thought that Bertha Smith, who died in 1988, did more tha...

I enjoyed teaching about angels in my Life Group on Sunday morning.  Angels are a fascinating aspect of the Bible and Christian history.  ...

Congregationalism is the form of church government and polity we find modeled and practiced in the NT.   It honors the doctrines of t...

Exodus 18:13-23 History repeats itself.   The Bible shows us a leadership-administrative problem encountered by Moses and corrected b...

Focus on the Family offers a good article for pastors: When Ministry Leaders Become Weary .  Read it with your pastor in mind!

Introduction I appreciate what Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, said, “Any system will work if the p...