“…It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High.” (Psalms 92:1) My wife and I share a common love for Southern Gospel music. In fact, we love it so much that we work with our church to bring Southern Gospel artists to Griffin. We agree with William Congreve, the English dramatist, who once said, “Music has charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak”. Indeed, we have seen God move at our concerts and have […]

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (1 Timothy 3:16-17) The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC recently reported that religious scholars attending a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think that most of the major beliefs to which Christians hold are nothing more than myths. They called their meeting a Jesus Seminar and claim that only 18 percent of the verses […]

“People who want to live a full life and enjoy good days must keep their tongues from saying evil things, and the lips from speaking deceitful things.” (1 Peter 3:10) When I was a child, my dad hired a housekeeper who would pay me to cuss her out. Can you believe it? It just tickled her to death to hear a child “cuss like a sailor”. Well, I continued to “cuss like a sailor”, all the way to adulthood. Why it became such a natural part of my […]

“…We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God…” (Acts 14:22) I received a letter recently from a reader in Illinois that troubled me. Eighteen years ago, within just a few days of her own salvation, she ran over and killed a two-year-old boy while she was backing out of her driveway. She lamented that she could not find any parallel in the Bible to comfort her. “Nowhere could I find how to live with myself, or face the parents of that little boy who […]