Since March the Twenty-Second, Two-Thousand and Fourteen, Anno Domini, I have been living with my friend: Reverend Kevin Ray Sinclair in Houston. My time in communal living with him is coming to an end on May 31st, even though I now live in Houston and will be able to see him, the bond that we…
Author: CS Humble
I Am My Right Hand
by C.S. Humble- You don’t know this about me, but I was born left-handed. Then, for some antiquated reason, my teachers in elementary school told me that I didn’t want to be left-handed, that I should be right-handed. Since I was seven years old, I’m fairly sure that I didn’t give the left/right hand debate…
Hands
Hands On my twelfth birthday my Uncle Doug handed me a box wrapped in paper that I was certain had been crafted from volcanic glass. The gift, wrapped in a shining mirror of moonlight, reflected the dull, whiskey colored light flowing from the overhead fan in my Grandmother’s guest room. There was a giant, blue…
The Man In My Basement
The Man In My Basement by C.S. Humble PREFACE – The human vessel has been compared to countless nouns and suggested to exist in even more states. Some of the analogies or beliefs are simple in phrase, yet titanic and revolutionary in concept. Plato told his philosopher brethren that the human soul was bicameral –…
Why Loving Homosexuals Means Letting Them Marry: A Christian Perspective
Originally published by THE GOOD MEN PROJECT on April 15, 2013 – Why Loving Homosexuals Means Letting Them Marry: A Christian Perspective by C.S. Humble We’ve forgotten love. And I am so sorry for it. I’m pained so deeply by these Christian statements on the social, spiritual, and ethical implications of allowing same-sex couples the…
Confession is Good for The Soul, Love is Better
By C.S. Humble This might just be me, but spiritually, I get lonely. There are times when I feel so empty that the only appropriate analogous descriptive noun would be ‘abyss’. Sometimes I feel like I’ve over complicated the gospel, other moments like I’ve simplified the eternal mystery of God so that I can have…
The Joyful Christian – Disciple Now 2014 Homily/Recap
The following is a sermon that I gave on Saturday, February 15th, 2014, to the South Main Baptist Church Youth group for the final session of their disciple now. It is part homily and part testimony, enjoy it if you have the time. Comments are welcome. – C.S. The Joyful Christian: Longing, Losing, and Living…
A Union Reclaimed
A Union Reclaimed Are we not still brothers and sisters of an American nation? Have our wounds with one another become so grievous that they are beyond mending? Can it be said that the American experiment is over because the people of this nation have forgotten our defining attribute of cohesion; the backbone to which…