From the Pastor’s Desk

Pastor Ron Biddle 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.

“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”

If you see it, you can never unsee it. You hear it, it’s in your memory bank forever. Unless it’s the phone number to the pediatrician when your kid is running a 102 temp at midnight. But usually, everything you see and hear becomes part of you – good and bad.

Who feels confined?

Barbara Mackle and her mother had settled into their comfortable hotel room in Atlanta in December 1968. They’d been out on a long day of Christmas shopping. Barbara was the 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy Miami industrialist.After saying, “Good night, Mom,” there was a knock.

Back in the Day By Bunny Baker

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong. Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance. Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked. Don't name a pig you plan to eat. To know how country folks are doing look at their barns, not their houses. Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

Thinking Out Loud

Let's face it, growing old is not as bad as people seem to think it is or is it? Sure, we seem to find everyday tasks a bit more challenging than we used to, and the prices on the menu are more difficult to squeeze into our budget now that our incomes may have changed.

Thinking Out Loud

Grief and grieving is inevitable because we choose to love.

From the Pastor’s Desk

Somewhere in the early 1900s, Mahatma Gandhi set a goal for himself. He wanted to gain political freedom for his native India and led his people in their quest for freedom for over three decades until it was granted in 1947.

“This Is Eternal Life”

The first schools were established in the thirteen original American colonies during the 1600s. The textbook was the Bible until 1963!The Bible has been attacked because people see false “Christians.” Some think it is divisive and radical because they don’t witness the truth.

Thinking Out Loud

Normal people blush, but the Scriptures charge that the people of God in the days of Jeremiah somehow forgot how to blush. They were so perverted in their thinking that things did not seem right or wrong to them. They called evil good, and good evil.

Westview Boys’ Home Visits Depew

Depew church of Christ families recently hosted several boys from the Westview Boys’ Home in southwest Oklahoma.