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Editor’s Note: This is the third and final installment in a three-part series.
“We all get so involved in our silly little lives that we have made for ourselves to where we …
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8/8/20
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Jesus moving toward the cross said, “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify your …
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8/8/20
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It was the first day of school Monday at Rainbows and Rhymes, which has reopened the doors as a full-day preschool and daycare.
Staff at the center, a ministry of First United Methodist Church, …
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8/4/20
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All around us people are watching and so is the Lord. Proverbs 15:3 says, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, watching the evil and the good.”
In his book, “A Father for …
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8/1/20
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Editor’s Note: This is the second of three installments in a series.
“Worshiping God to me means that I can have a connection with him. It’s like I can go to him and worship, and …
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8/1/20
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Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series.
“To worship God is paying attention to nobody else but God,” says Pruitt, 11. “If you don’t do …
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7/25/20
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John Maxwell and Dan Reiland shared the following story in their book, “The Treasure of a Friend”:
Though Jim was just a little older than Phillip and often assumed the role of leader, …
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7/25/20
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Hundreds of children usually gather at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds every summer to live in the frontier days.
During Cowboy Camp, kids are taught how to ride and wrangle horses and learn …
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7/20/20
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In Proverbs 12:4, the Bible says an excellent wife is like a crown to her husband, and a shameful one is compared to rotten bones. What could this possibly mean?
“If a good wife is like a …
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7/18/20
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Every one wonders about the future. All of us would like to know what the future holds. We have concerns about our country, government, health, family, jobs, finances and many other things. The …
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7/18/20
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“God likes it when we do what’s right because that is another reason to go to heaven,” says Colton, 6.
Good works are never a reason anyone goes to heaven. Rather, they should be …
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7/11/20
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A friend sent me a text containing the list of common items that become extraordinary in the hands of the right people:
• A baseball in most of our hands is worth about $6. A baseball in …
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7/11/20
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“When you have a baby sister, and sometimes you trick her, then God will not like that,” says Victoria, 8.
Baby sisters seem to have radar for discovering they’ve been duped …
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7/3/20
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Sometimes when we look around us or watch national news on the television, seeing the condition of the world, we feel these are the most troubling times ever and there is no good news. Possibly it is …
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7/3/20
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A former Presbyterian church has found a new purpose as the home for another congregation.
After years of worshiping downtown, One Way Pentecostal Apostolic Church purchased the Milligan Memorial …
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7/1/20
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For many students in Montgomery County, summer plans have changed. Conferences, camps and other events have largely been canceled.
With that in mind, local community group known as Unite …
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6/29/20
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“I think God is light blue and white, because I think he watches us from the clouds,” says Brittany, age 9.
There’s a sense in which God did watch over his people from the …
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6/27/20
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On the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States stated the the following:
“Why is it that, next to the …
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6/27/20
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Rich vs. poor. Israeli vs. Palestinian. Girls vs. boys. Wouldn’t the world run much more easily if people were alike?
Wrong, says Michael, age 7. God made us different from one another so …
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6/20/20
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Most churches in America have a church bulletin. Some interesting announcements have appeared in their pages over the years.
• Miss Charlene Mason sang, “I will not pass this way …
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6/20/20
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