Category: Church

Donkey Thoughts I read where a guy proclaimed, “I want to be a Jackass for Jesus!” I would like to think that I would not say the same, but then I started…

Caterpillar steps and butterfly flight Butterflies! Last week our order of caterpillars arrived, which we plan to raise into butterflies for release by children and families on Easter Sunday morning. This is…

Debbie Snapp ECB Publishing, Inc. Join with the First United Church family on Sunday, April 14, for a community wide picnic and Easter Egg Hunt. The Spring event will be held at…

Article Submitted It was a brisk February day in Youngstown just outside of Panama City. They were sitting at a makeshift dining table in front of a camper. The front yard was…

Pride goes before the fall They say that pride is the mother of the vices, as it is the reason that angels fell. Over the years, I have been invited to contribute…

40 days and counting As a wise person once shared, “It’s not what we eat, but what we digest that makes us strong. It’s not what we gain, but what we save…

Cancer Thoughts Cancer is a hard disease to understand. It hurts not only the victims, but their families and friends as well. It’s a hard process to endure. Over the years, I’ve…

Men take note: The Super Bowl is over and Valentine’s Day is about a week away! Fair or not, Valentine’s Day is a day when the male species is called to step…

There’s a story about a little bird who didn’t fly south soon enough for the winter. It wound up on the ground, slowly freezing to death. When things looked really dim, a…

Senior Moments Those were the times! We could eat like a horse and not look like one. All of the school teachers were older than we were, and professional athletes were about…

Successful Ministry Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got. I share this story as it was shared with me. My heart goes out to this guy. As they say, “but for the…

I came across some “Dear Santa” letters written by kids. One letter I read made me wonder whether Elliot was able to get off the naughty list. He wrote, “Dear Santa, I’m…

“Rudolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was first introduced as an advertising gimmick. 79 years ago, Montgomery Ward gave copies of the poem, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, to customers for their children. It was…

Every Christmas we celebrate with the Christmas story and birth of Christ.  Do we really know what we think we know about what the Scriptures have told us about Jesus’ birth? The…

Mickey Starling, ECB Publishing, Inc. Midnight Cry will be performing at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, in Madison, on Friday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. Group founder, Greg Day, along with his brother…

Everyone needs a buddy I wonder if the Scripture saying “whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me” applies to animals? Buddy came into our lives riding in…

I’ve been called a turkey before. No one wants to be a turkey. To be called a Turkey means that someone thinks you aren’t the smartest thing going. Being called a turkey…

Early shopping opportunities are already flooding our lives. Halloween wasn’t over before the first Christmas merchandise was out. Christmas specials are already flooding our television sets, even though Thanksgiving is still a…