DISARMED BY A PETUNIA

DISARMED BY A PETUNIA

I was driving down the road and was approaching a house that looked, to me, like the typical “crack house.” As I got closer to the house I noticed a man standing on the front porch. A cigarette drooped from his mouth. His scraggly beard, sunken eyes, weathered skin...
THE FILLING

THE FILLING

Sarah, Hannah, Rebekah, Rachel, Manoah’s wife, and Elizabeth … Do you know what these six women of the Bible had in common? The Bible says that they were all BARREN, which means that they weren’t able to have children … they couldn’t get pregnant … their wombs were...
“DON’T YOU CARE?”

“DON’T YOU CARE?”

If you don’t get upset about a situation when others are upset and panicking, sometimes it can be perceived by others as apathy … you might be looked upon as being “uncaring.” But, that’s not always the case. There are two particular instances in the...
Grow!

Grow!

Someone asked me a very interesting question: “If God wants us all to be Christ-like why doesn’t He just MAKE us that way?” I answered the question with two questions of my own: “If God wants all of us to be adults, why aren’t we born...
NOT WHAT I THOUGHT

NOT WHAT I THOUGHT

When I was a young man, just 20 years of age, I was singing and playing my guitar at a youth camp just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. After one service, a camp counselor brought a young teenage girl to me who was crying profusely. The counselor said to the girl,...