Just a few weeks ago, I was confronted with one of those dates that’s more than a little difficult. September 8th was my dad’s birthday. He passed… Read more “My Misguided Parents”

I decided I was not going to say anything. I was simply going to do what I always did…nothing…smile and take it. After all, the fellow who… Read more ““Magic Eraser””

Nothing gets my hackles up like losing something. My forehead wrinkles up, my face turns beet red, and veins start popping up on my neck when I… Read more “Lost and Found from the Top Down”

William Shakespeare managed to solidify his place in world history (and high school English classrooms) with an ink pen. One does not have to be an English… Read more “Once a Stage…Now a Courtroom”

When I was growing up in east Tennessee, my mom always bought our family’s groceries from White Stores. That name probably doesn’t ring a bell to those… Read more “The Cost of Generics”

It’s not often that I turn to a work of fiction to address a spiritual concern. But from time to time an author’s work of fiction can… Read more “Sauron, Sin, and Unforgivable Forgetfulness”

The year was 2011 and it was Memorial Day weekend when I first heard the name of JR Hildebrand. I had preached at FBC earlier on that… Read more “The Christian’s Racing Line”

During the 3rd week of January of 2020 I was in Puerto Rico serving with a mission team from our church.  Nothing about the trip was normal. … Read more “A Maddening Little Game”

Many years ago an anonymous writer penned a phrase in the first line of a poem which read, “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder.”  In 1602, another… Read more ““Fonder”…and a Few Other Things”

I was a sophomore in high school when the movie, “Red Dawn,” came out in 1984.  The movie featured a cast that would go on to become… Read more “A Civilized “Red Dawn” of Sorts”