The Notebook

Devotions, Lagniappe, and Christian Fortune Cookies

  • Thinking About the Toy Aisle

    Graduation time is here. Oddly enough, my thoughts haven’t been on caps, gowns, diplomas, or even the future. I know all those things are important. But my mind has been somewhere else. I’ve been thinking about, of all things, press-on nails and the toy aisle at Dollar General. I’ve been thinking about the sound little…

  • You Are Never Alone

    In 1949, Hank Williams recorded one of the most haunting country songs ever written, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” The song is pure South Alabama poetry. Consider the second verse: “I’ve never seen a night so long as time goes crawling by. The moon just went behind the clouds to hide its face and…

  • Welcome to The Notebook

    Every morning begins much the same way. A cup of coffee and an open Bible. A laptop waits nearby to take notes and capture whatever God chooses to teach that day. Sometimes those pages become a daily devotion. Sometimes they become the outline of a sermon. Other days they awaken a memory from growing up…