Philip McDuffie

  • 2021 in Books

    One of my favorite times of the year is when prominent Christian pastors, theologians, and websites begin posting their top ten book lists. This allows me to peruse these lists in hopes to find some good books to read in the upcoming year. In what follows, I’ll post the ten books that I enjoyed reading…

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  • Things I’ve Learned

    I went to church sporadically growing up. I remember occasionally going to a small Southern Baptist Church about fifteen minutes from my childhood home when I was in elementary school. While I was in middle school, I remember intermittingly going to a larger Southern Baptist Church in West Mobile. And by the time I entered…

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  • Red, White, & Due

    Before Kahlie and I got married, we did what any smitten couple aspiring to have a godly marriage would do — we both printed and filled out John Piper’s Questions to Ask When Preparing for Marriage. As we worked our way through Piper’s questions, we came to the one about adoption that asked, “Would we…

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  • Get Self-Control!

    “A man without self-control  is like a city broken into and left without walls.” Proverbs 25:28 The Bible teaches that we have three great enemies: the world, the flesh, and the devil. These three adversaries have done more damage to the human race than all the communist regimes throughout history. The world, this godless age…

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  • Don’t Overstay!

    “Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,  lest he have his fill of you and hate you.” Proverbs 25:17 Just the other day I was meditating on this proverb while I was sitting in my office. As one of our custodians came in to straighten up, I mentioned it to her to see…

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  • Two Hopes

    “The hope of the righteous brings joy,  but the expectation of the wicked will perish.” Proverbs 10:28 Hope is grounded on the certainty of future blessing. It springs up inside of people as they think about all the good that is going to come to them at a later date. And to some extent, everybody…

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  • What A Nuisance!

    “Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,  so is the sluggard to those who send him.” Proverbs 10:26 Throughout the book of Proverbs, the sluggard is actually portrayed in amusing and pitiful ways. The sluggard is depicted as a person who is perpetually lazy and inactive. He does not have any discipline,…

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