Like many boys in my generation, there was a time in my early childhood when I longed to be a cowboy. The cowboys on television...

Most Baptists do not believe that foot washing is an ordinance. Yet it is a biblical concept. The vivid description of Jesus washing the feet...

Years ago, the Marines advertised that they were looking for “A Few Good Men.” That slogan has been revised to become reflective of the dual...

George H. W. Bush infamously declared, “Read my lips, no new taxes.” Less than two years later, the former president signed into law some new...

At times I am tempted to give up on Christmas. I need to qualify what I mean by that statement. Christmas as a cultural experience...

Recently, a legend passed from among us. Landrum Leavell finished his earthly course with the same kind of faithfulness that characterized his 80-plus years. To...

The Kendrick brothers have done it again! The makers of earlier films, “Flywheel” and “Facing the Giants,” have raised the bar even more with their...

I was doing my usual, traveling the roads of Alabama, going to meetings or making a church visit. My gas gauge was low, leaning toward...

Ten years ago, I was called to be a state missionary and to assume the ministry assignment with the State Board of Missions as executive...

Children are experts in the crying business. They can fall and skin a knee, and the tears flow. They can fall off their tricycles or...