Share Computer Lingo By Stephanie Hardesty (Steffanie H. Russ) / last week So, I’m sitting here with this supposedly high-speed DSL…waiting for the page to reload. It can get rather irritating as I’m sure some of you will agree. In this “instant” world we live in we want everything at the drop of a hat…all the way down to the Internet. While I’m waiting, I recall a […]
Share God Gave Us You By Sharon Arnold / last month God Gave Us You (for Pastor and Sister JosephDomingues) We turned to you as children, alone, in Nineteen Hundred Ninety-Six; We sought for love in your honored eyes, rejoiced to find reflected in our own, a new flame, and faith to dance in this new place! And what we saw in growing wonder, Our eyes […]
Share Dealing With Offenses By Marvin Hinds / last month Resentment. Anger. Insult. If you’ve been offended by someone, you’re familiar with these feelings. The pain has broken your spirit. The negative effect in your life doesn’t seem to go away. God makes it clear; the offense will come. (“… offenses will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!” Luke 17:1KJV) No matter […]
Share Like…Totally By Sheri Boulet / a couple of months ago Like…Totally I was in the kitchen yesterday, cooking when some sticky pork blood got on my hand. Suddenly I was 16 again… “EWWWW! Grody to the max!!” I exclaimed, then quickly gazed around the kitchen to make sure no one heard me. I have listened to my elders, noted their wording, admired their phrases, with […]
Share Today I Brought My Sons To The Temple By Susan Niswonger / last year Almost 31 years ago, God blessed me with a beautiful baby boy. Sixteen months later a second little boy arrived to complete our family. Both of my boys attended their first church service almost from birth; Steven at 4 days old and Philip at only 2 ½ days old. When they were only a few […]
Share KISS: Keep It Simply Simple By Don Doran / last year KISS Good morning! Start your day with a praise to Him. In a sales class many years ago, the instructor told us to KISS! We were all a bit taken back until he explained it meant, Keep It Simply Simple! He went on to show us we sometimes make things a lot more complicated than […]
Share Our Life Preserver By Don Doran / last year Our Life Preserver What do we do when we feel overwhelmed by it all? When what we are dealing with has become more than we can deal with, where do we go? Who’s our life preserver? “They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall […]
Share Sending my Love a Valentine By Kaylynn Schrack / last year Sending my Love a Valentine I know the roots of this Valentines holiday leave much to be desired, but I just want to focus on the love part for a second. I am a card maker, and I just love creating one of a kind cards for those I love! I enjoy seeing the receivers […]
Share Treat Me Like a Dog! By Don Doran / last year I hope you are having a great day today! Do you have a dog? We do and one of the outstanding characteristics of a dog is their desire to please. When we come home from being gone for any length of time Molly is so happy to see us. She will bark a greeting, wag […]
Share A Sure Thing! By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Good morning! I hope your week is off to a great start and that you enjoyed your weekend. We are always looking for a “sure thing.” Something that we can know for certain is going to work to our benefit, but sadly enough there are few sure things in life. In fact one man said […]
