All posts for the month November, 2017

What I Learned From Hallmark Movies, Part 2

by Suzanne D. Williams I addressed this issue before, but have a different twist on it this time. Maybe it’s my need to make people smile kicking in. In any case, in Part One, I gave a number of standards that make these movies work: “A well-defined setting; Two contrasting lifestyles; A big secret that […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Prov. 15:14 A wise person is hungry for truth, while the fool feeds on trash. It is not too hard to figure out who are the wise and who are the fools in the world. Wisdom is not the same thing as knowledge. The world is full of very knowledgeable […]

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What Is Success and Why Do We Want It So Badly?

by Precarious Yates Cheers to the impossible, and all the tears it’ll take to get there!  Except, I don’t know where ‘there’ is. Some best-seller’s list? A successful movie?   What is success and why do we want it so badly?  Contrary to that title, I don’t have an answer.   Maybe I long for justification?  Do I […]

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Do You Love to Enter Contests?

by Rebekah Beene I love to enter contests like the one at our local grocery store. I enter this contest because I have a friend who won the pick up truck one year. I especially love contests during the holidays. I have rarely won anything, but I still enter them. Someone has to […]

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Time To Say Goodbye Excerpt

by Parker J. Cole Though tears blurred Gargi’s sight, they could not mask the massive form as it stood outside the curtains. Hastily she wiped at her eyes. “What did you just say?” she repeated.  The man, hidden somewhat behind the yellow and orange checkered drapes, shoved them aside and stepped into the secluded space. […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Prov. 15:11 Even the depths of Death and Destruction are known by the LORD. How much more does he know the human heart! We don’t know what it is like to die. It’s a once in a lifetime experience for us. There are no do-overs. We will live on, but […]

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Excerpt from Under the Sun: A Traditional View of Ancient History

by Mary C. Findley After the flood, the most rapid, massive cultural change on record is the Exodus. The time of the Exodus was a dramatic change for every culture on earth that we know about. Thousands of years before the label “Second Intermediate Period” existed, Jews, then Christians, then Muslims, understood that […]

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God’s Pumpkin Patch

by CJ Peterson God’s pumpkin patch is full of pumpkins that are ripe and ready to harvest. He carefully picks each one at the proper time and carries them into the house to clean out. He washed off the dirt and mud from the garden to make sure the outside is clean. Then […]

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Honor All People

by Mark Malcolm Verse  13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. 15 For such is the will of God that by doing […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Prov. 15:3 The LORD is watching everywhere, keeping his eye on both the evil and the good. How does this truth make you feel? The Lord is watching everywhere; everywhere you go the Lord knows about it. He is aware of what you are doing at all times. He knows […]

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