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

I wrote this for my daughter several years ago . . . Come dance with Daddy, my dear and darling princess I’ll be your knight in shinin...

The following is a great article by Edie Melson . . . Life is full of regrets and the writer's life is no different. But since I...

View my article What Really Matters on the Just 18 Summers website.

  This is his "I am so excited to be sitting next to the dessert bar at Golden Corral" look.

Eugene Peterson coined the phrase that discipleship is a long obedience in the same direction.  What a terrific picture.  Much of the Chris...

The following devotion I wrote was featured this past Sunday on the ministry website of Christian Devotions: Taste and see that the LOR...

The following poem won third place this week in the 2014 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Awards for unpublished works in ...

  I ran into these guys last week.  I am the one in the middle with the big biceps.

This week I am attending the Blue Ridge Mountains Writers Conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina.  The BRMCWC expe...

Our family is preparing to enjoy some vacation time the next several days.  It was Vance Havner who said, "If you do not come apart, y...

I once heard a story about a retired business executive and his wife. One evening, the wife called friends to ask what they were doing. ...

Nothing will keep a Christian more immature than trying to keep a list.   – Charles Swindoll

Click on this link to read my Family Devotion in Focus on the Family's Thriving Family digital summer magazine.

  From the mundane to the profound moments of our lives—from waiting on traffic lights and elevators to the end of suffering or the fulfi...

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...