Examples in Scripture of praising God abound. Moses praised God (Exodus 15:1,2), and he also commanded the people of Israel to offer praise to the Lord (Deuteronomy 10:17-21). David praised God (II Samuel 22:1-4; I Chronicles 16:25-27), and he also wrote many of the 160 examples of praise given God in the book of Psalms. […]

Many Christians want to have a good prayer life but often wonder what makes for an effective prayer. Jesus answers this concern in Matthew (6:9-13) as He teaches His followers how they should pray. First, Jesus says, we ought to pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” In this, Jesus is telling us […]

Continued from last week Surely the worst was over, at least for that night. Due to someone cancelling a reservation, Delaine and I ended up with a motel room in Smithfield, N.C. Our plan was to get a good night’s sleep, eat a hot breakfast and, head home. But things did not go as planned. The lights in our motel room […]

Infamous financier Bernie Madoff choose the wrong profession. As you know, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years for his elaborate schemes of deception, faux promises, fraud and grossly negligent management of billions of dollars of other people’s money. As a fraudulent financier, Madoff was held accountable for his despicable actions which caused irreparable harm to […]

It was called to my attention last Thursday that a letter had been published in The Country Chronicle from an enraged Belinda Portnall, chairwoman of the Greater Blythewood Chamber of Commerce, verbally attacking Blythewood Town Council members Eddie Baughman and Tom Utroska for expressing their concerns during the Aug. 21 Town Council meeting about the […]

Jamel Dunn, age 32, drowned on July 9 in a large pond in Cocoa, Florida. Sadly, his decomposed body was not found until July 14. There is a possibility that all of this could have been prevented if it were not for the callousness of a group of teenagers. While struggling to save his own […]

The reoccurring nightmare known as VC Summer offers a daily stream of incredible stories of greed, cover ups, gross mismanagement, and just plain gosh awful stupidity. Certainly we need to hold the culprits consequentially accountable and adjust the utility regulations which enabled this disaster. Most importantly our legislators should cease pursuing the impossible dream of […]

As a Christian, the last thing I want to do is to sin against God. I don’t want to fall short of His expectations of me and in turn disappoint Him. Sure, I understand the fact God knows I am weak and frail and that I will not live perfectly in His sight. Knowing this […]

Fast and Furious” best describes our state officials’ recently expressed outrage towards the failed V.C. Summer project. Certainly, we are pleased to read the state’s elected officials have emerged from their collective self-induced coma. Fortunately, it did not take too much to get our officials to wake up to the V.C. Summer disaster- merely billions […]

Every so often our South Carolina state legislature fixates on a minor opportunity and turns it into an epic disaster with  ill conceived “fixes.” We are all too familar with the pain inflicted by the pension ‘de’form of 1999 and the destructive Base Load Review Act of 2007 as examples of the state’s penchant for […]