Mental Illness

You finish the sentence. “I was sick and you _____________.” Now, if we’re talking about heart disease, diabetes, or cancer, I’m pretty sure we could fill in the blank with “visited me.”  But what if we’re talking about mental illness?  Might the sentence more truthfully be completed as follows:  “I was sick and you avoided and …

That’s Not What It Says

Have you ever tried to convince anyone that Jesus is the only way to Heaven? If you have, did you use John 14:6 as your proof?  In this passage Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.” But I challenge you to re-read that …

Thankful to God

Today I received a text from my sister.  It contained the picture to the left.  My sister has been going through some old boxes at our mom’s house.  Among the things she found was a calendar/journal that belonged to our grandma, Garnet Higginbotham.  The entry was from the day her daughter, our aunt passed away …

Get Real!

Have you ever noticed how we sometimes give “correct” answers instead of “truthful” answers when we find ourselves in certain settings?  I once asked a high school Bible class if they were running late for school and only had time to do one of the following things, which would they do.  Would they read their …

The Most Segregated Day of The Week

We’ve come a long way from a time when some people actually owned other people and when Jim Crow laws were enforced to maintain separation between humans having varying degrees of skin pigmentation. No longer do we segregate black and white people from each other by refusing to allow them to use the same public schools, restaurants, restrooms, …