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

One of my all-time favorite movies is the Disney classic Mary Poppins .   The music, the colors, the fanfare, and the story excite me.   Ou...

Holidays, particularly religious ones, carry with them a lot of memories that invoke various emotional responses. Easter reminds me of de...

Charles Swindoll , one of my favorite Bible teachers and authors, shares 5 insights for healthy family relationships.  The same goes true ...

Last Tuesday I began a blog about the qualities in the live of disciples.  The first part was called Discipleship: Part One. 3.   Spirit...

The smell of my grandparents' house still lingers in my memory.  In my mind I can walk through the house and recall different smells in...

             Jesus Christ issued a simple call - it was the simple call of Jesus.   He walked up to ordinary fishermen and said, "Co...

Two weeks from today will be Good Friday, the day that the church historically remembers Christ's crucifixion.  Given the significance ...

   Two happy children on their way to Disneyworld!   

When you stand before God at the Judgment Seat of Christ you may have regrets over how you spent your time, but you will have no regrets ov...

Classic moment with our eight-year old.  In the middle of prayer meeting Sunday night at church, when the adults are praying spontaneously,...

The following is a helpful article from The Rocket Company . . . As a pastor, or communicator, it’s easy to neglect the most important co...

           John Piper, one of the most well-known pastors of our day, wrote a tremendous little book of three biographical sketches.  Each ...

My family recently attended a National Invitation Tournament (NIT) basketball game at Clemson University.  The placed was packed.  We had t...

Preparation, delay, and growth are characteristics of God’s working both in history and in nature.   Scripture and the facts of nature ...

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination. -- Dan Miller

The Lord promised Joshua that if he would meditate on the Book of the Law and obey the Lord, God would give him success.  For Joshua that m...

One of the marks of the life of Abram was the regular building of altars.  As he moved from place to place, he built new altars:  From the...

Rhett and gang at The Swiss Family Robinson Tree House in Disneyworld one very hot day in July 2005

How easily we do forget!  I had to accept several years ago that I was wired mentally like an absent-minded professor.  I can stand up from...

    We attended the Great Homeschool Convention in Greenville, South Carolina , this weekend.  This year was our fourth year to att...

This morning I heard that an associate pastor at a Southern Baptist church in upstate South Carolina has an inoperable cancer with little h...

The Lord created us for healthy relationships.  God created humanity first to enjoy a relationship with Him.  Paul wrote that God, who has ...