Enjoying a casual evening at home, reclining in my favorite easy chair reading, while the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage was chatting on the telephone. I seldom pay attention to phone …
more
By JAMES L. SNYDER, Faith Columnist
|
9/27/18
|
This time around Editor Scott Coleman wants to know whether the perspective of ‘once saved, always saved’ can be reconciled with the belief that we must repent and seek forgiveness on a regular …
more
By AIDAN WILCOXSON, HCN Faith Columnist
|
10/18/18
|
Christmas is a special time of year. It is one of our favorite family holidays. Christmas is a time when the entire world celebrates the birth of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the …
more
By MARK BROWN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
12/20/18
|
This week’s question is frequently asked. I’ve heard fascinating and sometimes loud discussions from laity and clergy alike. When asked, I usually cop out and say “That’s above my pay …
more
By DALE CHRISMAN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
10/18/18
|
For me, personally, my Christmas memories always involve family — first, my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Then, later in life it involved my wife, two daughters and five grandchildren. …
more
By DALE CHRISMAN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
12/20/18
|
The topic for this round table is: “Some teach the doctrine of once saved, always saved, and others preach repent and seek forgiveness always. Are the two teaching at odds?” Jesus said in …
more
By MARK BROWN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
10/18/18
|
Karen and I have spent almost every one of our adult Christmases managing church observances and worship. Now our children live away with their children and we are free to celebrate Christmas as we …
more
By CHUCK ROBISON, HCN Faith Columnist
|
12/20/18
|
Editor Scott Coleman wants to know what the Christmas Season means to me. The best way I can express that is by telling you what I’m going to be doing on the morning of Wednesday, December 26.Like …
more
By AIDAN WILCOXSON, HCN Faith Columnist
|
12/20/18
|
When Reese Harrison arrived at his dental office in Lynn Haven, Florida, the day after Hurricane Michael made landfall, the devastation was beyond imagination. Dr. Harrison’s building was in tact, …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
11/21/18
|
We’re going to have a Thanksgiving service this year and it’s always a challenge. Not the service itself, but what should be the main message. Of course we ought to say we’re thankful for a …
more
By DALE CHRISMAN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
11/21/18
|
As my friend Betty Ann unpacked her young family in my Deep South hometown, it didn’t take long for the neighbors to arrive with a strangulating dose of hospitality. Their silver hairdos teased to …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
10/4/18
|
Traditionally, King Solomon has been regarded as the primary author of three books of the Old Testament. Some interpreters say he wrote Song of Songs while he was a lusty, young man (a book that …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
10/25/18
|
Christmas traditions are hardly monolithic. The season is celebrated with as much colorful variety as the pretty paper and shiny ribbons encasing the gifts under the tree. And speaking of that tree, …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
12/30/18
|
A friend gave me a little book a few weeks with a startling title: “Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives,” written by neuroscientist David Eagleman. My first thought was that it was about people …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
12/30/18
|
One of the most remarkable passages in Scripture is Jesus’s appearance to the disciples on the evening following his resurrection. The disciples are cowering behind locked doors, for fear that the …
more
DALE CHRISMAN, HCN Faith Columnist
|
12/30/18
|
I must confess that in the Parsonage there are times of confusion. It has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with the human brain that is undernourished.The Gracious Mistress of the …
more
By JAMES L. SNYDER, Faith Columnist
|
10/4/18
|
Christmas traditions are hardly monolithic. The season is celebrated with as much colorful variety as the pretty paper and shiny ribbons encasing the gifts under the tree. And speaking of that tree, …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
1/3/19
|
I finally figured it out.Y’know how a lot of times one person will remind you of someone else, but you just can’t quite put your finger on who that someone else is? That’s the way it’s been …
more
By AIDAN WILCOXSON, HCN Faith Columnist
|
10/25/18
|
“Once upon a time there were a fisherman and his wife who lived in a hovel by the sea.” So begins a story by the Brothers Grimm, a story not as well known as “Cinderella” or “Hansel and …
more
2/10/19
|
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas began his writing career while still a teenager. He dropped out of school, much to the chagrin of his father who was an English teacher, to pursue his literary interests, …
more
By RONNIE MCBRAYER, Faith Columnist
|
11/29/18
|