Riff-Raff Kids!

One afternoon while eating a late lunch on my ironing board in the parsonage kitchen, l saw two little boys climb over my chain-link fence and started picking green apples from the tree that was in my backyard. None of this angered me, but it did scare me that these boys could have hurt themselves.

. . from the Pastor ’s Desk

Have you ever noticed how sometimes when one storm passes . . . another is already forming to test your faith? The Southeast United States experienced tropical storm Ida in 2021, but if you live in Puerto Rico, you understand the concept of one storm after another.

New Year, New Start of Your Life!

A Joyous New Year? One thing we all have in common is that we want the New Year to be happy, healthy and filled with exciting new opportunities. Creating the type of life that bubbles with enthusiasm requires more than short-lived resolutions and goals.

. . . from the Pastor’s Desk

Pastor Ron Biddle A great people and their leadership over the years have engaged in a process of building lives and families in the Creek County area, and yet—many stopped attending church during COVID—never to return; some turning their back on God completely.

Why Dig Through Ancient Ruins?

There are numerous YouTube channels which show volunteers working alongside archaeologists in remote areas. They are all digging, scraping, brushing, and carefully handling their finds.

Nowadays

Nowadays, identifying with a gender-and deciding to be that gender- rapidly seems to be becoming the norm. Some parents have decided, and actually encourage very impressionable young Juniors and Juniorettes to choose for themselves who and what they are.

Thinking Out Loud

Everyone makes mistakes or fails in their attempts to grow and meet the challenges of daily life. Without these miscues little would be learned, and growth as a person would be limited.

Hidden Baggage

Living two states away was an amazing adventure, but it comes with some baggage. In 1986 I moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Carlsbad, New Mexico, to become their senior minister. That’s 651 miles away, which is 9 hours and 48 minutes if you drove the speed limit from what you called home.

Why Do Christians Love?

In our country we have Constitutional protection and freedom. There is, however, an even greater “law” which supersedes the “wisdom” of men. When the scribes and Pharisees tested Jesus, He asked them for a common Roman coin of that time.

. . . from the Pastor’s Desk

Pastor Ron Biddle God is sitting in heaven when a scientist prays to Him and says, “God, we don’t need you anymore. Science has figured out a way to create life out of nothing—in other words—we can now do what You did in the beginning.”“Oh, is that so? Tell Me more.” God replied.