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The Reverend Stephen Crotts is pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Charlotte Court House, VA. He is also the director of the Carolina Study Center, Inc., a campus ministry, located in Chapel Hill, NC. Pastor Crotts may be reached at carolinastudycenter@msn.com.

The Best Medicine

The Best Medicine

In 1975, I graduated from Divinity School, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. In front of my theological class were the graduates of law.…

You Never Know!

You Never Know!

It had to be the hottest day of the year. 90% humidity. Temperatures in the 90s. I told my wife to grab her favorite magazine and go…

Students

Students

Several years back I spent a month at Wittenberg University in Germany studying with and teaching at night 26 divinity school students on the biblical view of…

Home, Sweet Church

Home, Sweet Church

When the flu epidemic shut the town down, that included church. So, being a minister of the gospel with over fifty years’ experience, I said I’ve got…

The Poor Christmas

It was going to be such a good Christmas. The bills were paid. We had three healthy children all under eight years old, and I? Well, I…

We Are Different

We Are Different

I took 30 distinguished visiting Chinese professors on a three-hour walking tour of Hillsborough.  Some of the doctors were historians. So, I showed them General Joe Johnson’s…

God’s Little Acre–Your Home

God’s Little Acre–Your Home

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, not known for his Christian faith, still wrote truth when he expressed, “As I read the book on Genesis, God didn’t give Adam and…

What Your Work Says About You

What Your Work Says About You

In a museum in Amsterdam, painter Rembrandt’s Descent from the Cross is on display. The painting tells one much about the artist. The dark background says there’s…

At Peace in a Fearful World

At Peace in a Fearful World

Part Two of Two Parts The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom…

At Peace in a Fearful World

At Peace in a Fearful World

Part One of Two  The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom should…