SPEAKING TRUTH: Are you a two-faced Christian?

Why do we do it?We always want to have it both ways. Someone like this we might call, “two-faced.”In the bestselling book, “Pilgrims Progress,” there was a character called, “Mr. Facing-Both Ways.”

OUT TO PASTOR: When it comes to gifts, I’m not gifted

Christmas is my favorite holiday.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 105

Corrina gently broke loose from her mom and walked to the car to be alone. Red got up off his knees with a groan and limped over to me.

OUT TO PASTOR: Why are flies so attracted to my nose?

Throughout my life, I have dealt with many “pesky” things that provoke the dickens out of me.I sure do miss those “dickens.”When I think I’ve got one pesky thing under control, another comes along.Recently, a new “pesky” thing entered my life.The new “pesky” thing – is a fly.I never knew flies...

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 104

About halfway through Doocy’s personal storytelling festival, the black Studebaker had driven up; so, the McClain family got to hear the ending, just like the day Doocy held court in the back of the red work truck on the red-dirt road down by the pond and in front of what one day would be the house...

OUT TO PASTOR: The turkey is my gobble, gobble wish list

What I enjoy the most about holidays is the “eating frenzy.”It gives me opportunity to get away with a lot behind The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage’s back, which is a great challenge.I’m not always successful, but I try – and I have my family to thank for that.In the last few years, I have had...

RESTORATION TRAINING CENTER: Lawlessness

“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 103

I thought of that story with a wry smile as we lived out the final episode on that Alabama hill in August of ’73.

OUT TO PASTOR: Fall fell way too soon this year

This summer was the best I’ve had in a long time.I enjoy summer because the weather is always warm, sometimes even hot.I was so focused on enjoying my summer that I didn’t realize Fall had arrived.The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage came into my office the other day and said, “Do you know what...

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 103

Doocy fumbled around with his thoughts for the longest, wrinkling his brow until he had settled things in his mind satisfactorily.