“Build houses and make yourselves at home.  Put in gardens and eat what grows in that country. Marry and have children. Encourage your children to marry and have children...

January is often presented as a season of fresh starts and renewed energy. For many people, however, it begins with exhaustion. Financial strain, emotional overload, and...

“Hang on.  Brace yourself.  We’re coming in for a rough land.” Anyone who’s ever flown very much has likely heard those words once or twice when landing in turbulent...

In the time of ice there lived an old man. Too old to do anything about the ice other than limp around and complain he did just that for weeks on end. Gone was the joy in...

Somedays it is VERY frustrating being in the news business. Especially when you are talking about a small town newspaper. While I appreciate all the kind words I hear on a...

 Hi Everyone!!! Cold weather came here last week with a blast of Winter around here in Arkansas County. At this time of year, there is a bright spot, there is Oaklawn...

Emergency savings are often described as a financial essential, yet for many people they feel unreachable. When income is stretched thin, the idea of setting money aside...

One of the most sobering passages of Scripture that describes today’s generation is found in Romans 1:18-32, which begins with “The Wrath of God is revealed against all...

2:17 'In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall...

There are far too many things in the national news that would turn this week's column into a miserable read, so instead I'll write about my own miserableness. Sound...

Hi Everyone!!! I have been feeling pretty well, my legs are getting better, but I can't do my little "Soft Shoe Dance" I used to do in Dallas. That got me to begin to write...

Charles Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers” in London in the mid-to-late 1800’s, once described the “scorner’s seat” in Psalm 1:1 as “a very lofty seat—but very near to the...

Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God...

Many people quietly live with the anxiety of watching their account balance count down instead of grow. Bills are paid, but barely. Emergencies feel threatening. The...

There are far too many things in the national news that would turn this week's column into a miserable read, so instead I'll write about my own miserableness. Sound...