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

Check out the January 2014 edition of HomeLife magazine by Lifeway Christian Resources .  This month's magazine includes a feature arti...

I know all the objections to forgiving a parent who hurt you deeply. For decades, I didn’t want anything to do with my father, a difficult...

Life throws curve balls to everyone.  We all go through hard times, disappointments, and changed expectations.  Journeying through those th...

Mandisa, winner of this year's Grammy for best contemporary Christian music album, explained on Facebook why she chose not to attend th...

"The cultural highlight of the Grammys would certainly be Queen Latifah overseeing a mass marriage ceremony. It was not solely a ga...

"Daddy, you know how people make wishes on the first star they see?   And you know how the North Star is the brightest?   I bet the...

This is why it is not a good idea to sled down a snowy hill while you are standing up!!!  (Yes, he was fine.)

  This is why 200+ pound men should not race 13-year old boys on small blue snow-discs.

We all need encouragement in our praying.  We need reminders that God does indeed hear us and that prayer matters.  Leonard Ravenhill offer...

Alice Smith offers the following helps about fasting in The Journey of Faith . . . Perhaps no Christian discipline is as neglected today...

"The biblical master narrative serves as a framework for the cognitive principles that allow the formation of an authentically Christia...

Frances Hendrix walked down the aisle to acknowledge the Lord’s calling her into vocational ministry while the hymn “Wherever He Leads, I...

Here is a good, basic article on the spiritual discipline of fasting . . . "Of all the spiritual disciplines, fasting is probably th...

As much as I love the fall and December, I have also grown to like the month of January for the opportunities for discipline it offers as w...

My wife and I have enjoyed watching the drama of Downton Abbey for a couple of years now.  Viewers have enjoyed delving into the a grand, s...

What follows has been adapted from a brief talk I delivered to the Oklahoma chapter of The Gospel Coalition on October 2. Here are 10 thin...

The following is an excellent word about the hope that we have in Christ - even if we grieve for loved ones we have temporarily lost . . . ...

See this Christmas Eve poem - Make Me a Child Again.

I hope that as you go about the final week before Christmas, you will take time to worship Christ in your spirit - and take opportunities ...

After Christmas last year, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to my family.  Some...

Every holiday season, I enjoy and appreciate the thoughts of Pastor Jack Hayford as they relate to celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. ...

I know during this season we all look for appropriate gifts for others in our lives.  If you know me well, you know that I love books and ...

My family enjoys visiting Lynchburg, Virginia!  Several years ago we began an annual trip in early December to enjoy Liberty University and...