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

Talking about the forces of secular humanism that have taken root in the United States, Franklin Graham called on Christ followers to take ...

Read my article Training Wheels and Walking on Water on Michelle Cox' Just 18 Summers blog here.

For me, January is a month of getting back to some basic disciplines of life.  Because tax season looms, it always requires doing some ess...

For weeks my daughter tried unsuccessfully to ride her bicycle without training wheels.   Fearing falling, she would not peddle forward an...

Creativity is not a function of intelligence; rather it is a function of imagination.  Have you ever known a child to not be imaginative?  ...

David Barton gives an excellent brief history of the State of the Union address.  He also shows historically - even during World War II - ...

The following is a helpful article by Donald Whitney .  Perhaps you can get alone sometime the next week and thoughtfully go through these ...

by Peter Marshall We yearn, our Father, for the simple beauty of Christmas -- for all the old famliar melodies and words that remind us ...

Ben Stein on the Christmas holidays . . . "I am a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish, and it does not bother me ev...

I can’t help remembering the things that were most precious to me. - Macduff in Shakespeare's Macbeth ...

If people valued food, song, and home more than gold, the world would be a merrier place.  - Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit

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

Read my article "5 Ideas for Celebrating Advent as a Family" on Lifeway's website here . 

Just in time for the holidays, best-selling author Yvonne Lehman has gathered memories from 34 Christian authors into an unforgettable fait...

The last two months of the year offer two fantastic holy days to celebrate - Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Let's plan special ways to in...

After Christmas two years ago, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to my family.  S...

Jack Hayford shares good words about the spirit of Santa Clause . . . "The expression 'Father Christmas' is commonly used in...

Click here to read my article Simple Ways to Remember Christ this December .

  The children singing John 1:1-7 at our annual Christmas Catechesis program. And yes, that is my beautiful wife directing.  

If you or your church receive HomeLife magazine, check out my article in the December edition.

The following is a good reminder from Edie Melson about the need to stop procrastinating and - just do it! . . . I love writing. And I l...

How much do you pray? I urge at least thirty minutes a day in your quiet time - including Bible reading and prayer.  For the person in fu...

Candy Arrington shares some great ideas for how to remember the Thanksgiving holiday during the month of November . . . "Sandwiched ...

I am setting this post to run at the top of the blog through most of November. "Troublesome times are here, filling men's hearts...

Years ago I learned the maxim from Elisabeth Elliot's broadcasts and writings that Christians need to learn to "trust God and do...

Sometimes God's provisions are just enough. Three weeks ago, our family decided to venture onto the Blue Ridge Parkway.  A beautifu...

The Wilsons enjoyed dressing up like heroes and villains from the Batman legacy.  Months ago we agreed to try and theme together for the fi...