My Church Notes

The Leaves that Hide Our Path

Fall is a most interesting time of the year. Take, for example, the leaves in the trees. Six months before, they were no more than barely visible buds strung along bare branches. Only in our minds ...

Tagalong Christian

Some things are meant to be attached to others. Think of travel trailers. A bumper-pull RV is also known as a tagalong trailer. Without the truck that goes ahead of it, the trailer would go nowhere ...

Blinded by God

The mole rat is a most unusual creature. It lives underground. Its legs are short and thin. A fourth of its muscles are found in its ...

Our STEW God

Stew can mean “to simmer in anger.” However, that’s such a limited interpretation of the word. We should look at a stew rather as a mixture of the best that the world has to ...

The Fall of the Great King

We are taught that we are what we make of ourselves. We control our own destiny, and if we fail at life, we are the ones at fault. In the same manner of speaking, if we achieve great success, it is ...

Head-on Collision

In the early hours of October 25, 2014, a young man, 19, watched the blacktop of Poticaw Bayou Road disappear underneath his headlights near Vancleave, Mississippi. The road stretched before him ...

The Devil’s Ambush

Some things we think are inviolate. A hospital ship at sea, one clearly marked as such. Schools filled with children. Churches and their parishioners. A mother holding her ...

The Twelfth Stone

Twelve is a number of high standing in the world today. Twelve is the amount of eggs in a carton. Twelve inches are in a foot. Even the face of a clock has twelve numbers, ones repeated two times in ...

Falling Rocks

Building a house in the mountains can be precarious. We have to consider what’s under our foundation to know whether our home will weather the test of ...

The Ultimate Bootstrap

If we visit Texas for any length of time, we’ll likely be pulling on a pair of Justins. Or Stetsons. Or the iconic Lucchese brand, handmade in a classic ...

No Excuses Allowed

We are a people of excuses. We fall back on them on a daily basis. We get a phone call reminding us of our missed appointment, and we blame our busy schedule; we feel embarrassed at a parent-teacher ...

Our COLORFUL God

By November, the northern parts of the United States have already dropped their foliage, and winter winds have begun to move in. However, in the South, it’s still fall, and color ...

Magnetic Properties of God

Magnetism is an amazing phenomenon. Hold up a sliver of a magnet, and it always points due north. Energize it with superconductive techniques, and it will remain permanently suspended around an ...