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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Ruminations

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is fixed and unchanging.  So when a man declares anything to be a gospel issue when it's not, this same man a...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Not a Beatific Vision, But . . .

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"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there b...
Saturday, September 09, 2023

The Yocona River

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Yocona River, Old River Road, Anchor/Taylor, Mississippi. In northern Mississippi, running across the southern part of Lafayette County, ...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

Why Stump Slung Chitlins?

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According to the telephone book, we lived on Pleasant Ridge Road, a cutoff road of about six miles between Mississippi Highways 7 and 9W.  F...
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Sunday, April 17, 2022

My Only Hope is Aslan

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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it.”     -  Puddleglum in C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair If I haven...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

A Not-So-Subtle Allusion to Tolkien

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I'm not a prophet or the son of a prophet, yet I can't help but draw conclusions from what is right in front of my face.  American e...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

The Situational Application of Ethics is NOT the Same as Situation Ethics

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Being somewhat of a contrarian, I submit the following to those who question the use of lesser evil/greater good paradigms in making ethical...
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Sunday, April 21, 2019

The Name of It Was Called Marah

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The words of Hezekiah, King of Judah: “Like a crane or swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upwa...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019

My Walking With Christ

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Recently, a man with whom I correspond asked me about my walk with Christ.  While he didn't use those exact words - "walk with Chr...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

The Gospel Proper

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“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and in which ye stand; By which ...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

R.C. Sproul (1939 – 2017)

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“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?” (2 Samuel 3:38) I once personally spoke to R.C. Sproul.  T...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Talking to God Without Saying a Word

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I've long believed that the best prayers I've ever prayed were either wordless or nearly so.  Yet when I've expressed this to ot...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Why I Pray in Christ's Name

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“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2...
Saturday, September 03, 2016

An Anchor For My Soul

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In Mississippi, cotton was still king. Even in the red clay hills of the state's north central region almost all cultivated land gre...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

My Third Conversion (Closing With Christ) - Part 2

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"Only he who has felt the heavy sword of the law hanging over him has learned to confess, 'Christ my righteousness.'" - E....
Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Terrible City

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I sometimes visit a terrible city called Anfectungen. I’ve been there many times, more times than I care to remember but never intentionally...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

In Memory of My Friend

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My friend, James Odis Webb, went to be with his God on September 19, 2013.  He was 77.  A longtime resident of Lafayette County, Mississipp...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

The Sacrifice of Cain and Giving Our Hearts to Jesus

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"Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. . . . but unto Cain and to his offering he [Jehovah] had not respec...
Friday, December 21, 2012

King of the Dirt Clods

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When I was a boy, a large part of my summers was spent outside.  Considering back then we didn’t have video games, internet, or cable te...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Thank God for Paxil

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There is an undercurrent in some corners of Evangelicalism that says anyone who takes antidepressants, whether for depression proper or anxi...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

If Not a Christian, Then an Atheist

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In my opinion, the two most hopeful metaphysical prisms through which to view death and judgment are the Protestant gospel and atheism, in ...
Monday, May 04, 2009

My Third Conversion (Closing With Christ) - Part 1

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“Regeneration can occur but once in the experience of the same soul; but conversion can occur many times.” - George Lasher, The Fundamental...