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

I wrote the following post several years ago but always re-post it in October. It has been one of my Top 10 most-viewed blog articles thro...

Our Dawson made it into Clubhouse, Jr. magazine, one of the Clubhouse Magazines . We didn't know until he received his copy in the ma...

The naysayers are at full throttle. “Local churches are dying!” “Churches are no longer relevant.” “The church is full of hypocrites.” “I ...

Christian Devotions ministry published a devotion I wrote about my grandparents.  Stand in His Strength describes the moment of my grandfa...

The following article is the best one I have read on the homosexual debate from a Christian perspective.  It is excellent and should be rea...

Don't think big; think small.  You can't change anything that's big, but you can change a lot of small things and collectively ...

Failure. It is a word every writer learns to appreciate with time. In the beginning it is frustrating and angry-making. Along the way it ...

R ecently, I met with a leader who was in the process of losing heart. I have seen the look in his eyes a hundred times before. (I had seen...

This week my family experienced the South Carolina State Fair.  In all my years living in SC, this was my first visit to the state fair.  I...

For related resources, see the following: Should the Church Teach Tithing? by Russell Kelly You Mean I Don't Have to Tithe?: A Deco...

"The Supreme Court has declined to take up appeals from states in which the courts have found same-sex marriage to be a constitutional...

I shared the following with our congregation this Sunday.  These principles show how a nation and godly citizens should respond to acts of ...

Here's another article in honor of Pastor Appreciation Month . . . If I were to devise a scheme to destroy churches, I would find wa...

A circumstance in the life of our family reminded me afresh this weekend to recognize God's hand in the little providences of life.  ...

I want you to read the following article, written by my friend Carol Roper of Fountain Inn.  Carol's article A Marriage that Started wi...

1 Samuel 18:1-4; 20:1-42 Life-Lesson:    Jonathan teaches us how to submit to God and how to submit to friends. Jonathan was one of ...