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Just south of Atlanta, tempers are flaring. At Valdosta State University, classes are closed because of a growing controversy surrounding the flag. Yep. The flag. It all started when one student protested the American flag by walking and stomping on it. Eric Sheppard claimed the flag was a racist, white supremacy symbol. Then, an American veteran, Michelle Manhart, came to campus to rescue and properly dispose the muddied flags. Consequently, there is a rally today at VSU of an expected…

Have you ever heard the Publix checkout lady tell you, “You saved $6.85 cents today?” Or… has the person behind the register at Barnes & Noble ever told you, “If you had our rewards card, you would have saved nine THOUSAND dollars?” What about this… It’s almost time to crank up the air conditioners in our huts. Don’t you just loathe hitting the on button only to have lukewarm air blow? After a four hundred dollar repair bill, you finally…

I’ve been struggling with some muscle/joint pain lately, so I quit drinking coffee. I read an organic magazine in my chiropractor’s office with a hippie article linking joint pain to caffeine. Sigh. I really love coffee. Any kind of coffee. I’m not a snob. I try to roll into the CCC offices before the other staff do. This is when coffee tastes the absolute best. I enjoy the darkness and quiet of 7 a.m. with my Bible and a cup…

How’s your holy week? Boy I wish I had a nickel every time someone’s asked me that one this week! Actually… nobody has asked me that. Have you been contemplating the steps of Jesus during His final week as you go through these days leading up to Easter? Wednesday was Jesus’ quiet day. All hell is about to break loose, but on Wednesday… perhaps… Jesus and his friends rested. Perhaps they went back to Bethany to rest. Jesus was preparing…

An internet humorist named David asks: Did you ever wonder if your legs bent the other way, what a chair would look like? Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground? Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder about a cow laughing so hard, milk would come out her nose? Did you ever wonder if man evolved from monkeys and apes, why there are still…

Last night, I spoke to a gathering of students at Point University in West Point, Georgia. We talked about how the church is now viewed as dangerous. At one point the church was the center of community. Then she moved to being irrelevant but harmless. Now many think Christianity is dangerous and needs to be eradicated from our thinking. What’s the answer to such a shift in culture? I passionately begged the Point University students to cement their identities… soul…

Last Friday I took Sherry and the remaining Scott brood to see the movie “McFarland.” We all loved the flick. It stars Kevin Costner as a white, high school coach challenged with coaching in an all-Hispanic high school in McFarland, California. Costner, or coach White, begins a cross-country running program because, as Costner says, “What better place could you find a cross country team than with kids who eat the right foods, pick in extreme heat and running is their…

Is tension good or bad? Is tension the same as stress? Does an unexpected bill cause tension or stress? Should a flashing “E” on my gas gauge cause stress or tension? Stress, some would say, is usually linked to a specific person, situation or experience that one fears. Tension, on the other hand, refers to mental strain, excitement, or a strained state of relationship. What the what? Do you happen to recall (or can Google) the 1975 movie, The Stepford…

Snowpocalypse II has passed. I barely survived. I made it back home on Wednesday just before noon — like Governor Deal had asked me to do. I hunkered and bunkered down. The family braced for the worst. Three days of school closings are evidence of the winter storm disaster God brought us all graciously through. Perhaps the worst part of the arctic solstice catastrophe was the layering. You know what I mean, right? With a legendary Atlanta winter event, survival…

He didn’t have a pair of shoes until he was a teenager. It wasn’t a parental, domestic abuse situation. It was abject poverty being lived out in east Africa. His family sold a cow to afford shoes, a Bible, tuition, and school supplies so David could finally go to school. After one semester, the money from the cow was gone, and David was kicked out of school. He was only brought back to his school because of exceptional athletic abilities.…