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

Focus on the Family has released the results of a new study looking at how many young people born between 1980 and 2000 are actually leavi...

Have you ever made a mistake in life?  Forgot or failed to seek the Lord and use wisdom and discernment before plunging into a decision you ...

The following a great testimony by Richard Blackaby recalling the events of his father's disappearance and homecoming last month and the...

Read this tremendous article where Chuck Lawless shares about his alcoholic father coming to Christ late in life - and exhorts leaders to ma...

Wayne Barber, in his workbook Life Principles from the Kings of the Old Testament , asks the question, "How do you respond when God co...

On October 21, this blog will change addresses!  Faith, Family, and Friends will then be located at www.rhettwilson.blogspot.com

I closed the lid to my laptop, putting it to sleep for the night. Sleep is what I needed, too, but I doubted I would get much. I pushed my...

Lifeway offers some excellent Ideas for Pastor Appreciation Month  as well as a good reflection on The Importance of Honoring Your Minister...

1. People do not like to follow; you have to show them why doing so is a good idea. A pastor wrote, “You said preachers should be leaders....

Beginning September 15, the address for this blog will change.  Faith, Family, and Friends will change addresses.  The old address is www.do...

October is set aside by some people as Pastor Appreciation Month.  But does the Bible teach us to honor our pastors?  The apostle Paul sa...

As I listen to pastors and authors around our country, as I read their blogs, and as I have been in pastoral ministry for more than a deca...

Robert Clinton, professor of leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of the well-known book The Making of a Leader , wrote an e...

Authentic expository preaching is marked by three distinct characteristics: authority, reverence, and centrality. Expository preaching is au...

This past Sunday, I gave all of our elementary school children a copy of the new resource from Lifeway called I'm a Christian: Now What...

Sonny Holmes wrote this great word after attending our home church's 50th anniversary celebration on Sunday.  It was so good I wanted t...

This weekend I am remembering with joy the church of my youth – Edwards Road Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. Tomorrow ERBC celebrates...

"The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching." —Albert Mohler

The following is a journal entry from 2004 . . . This past weekend we got Hendrix a “big boy bed.”   Dad and I had taken Mom-ee and Pa-...

If preaching is central to Christian worship, what kind of preaching are we talking about? The sheer weightlessness of much contemporary pre...

I enjoy using an iPad. It is, in my opinion, one of the most impressive devices yet invented. In one light-weight, travel-sized tablet the u...

1 Samuel 2:29-30 Life Lesson:     Living in God’s covenant means that we seek to honor Him.   A man of God brings a word in a setti...