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…
Category: Faith & Family
Maintaining an active love life
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…
From the Pulpit – Praying for those in authority
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…
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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…
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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…
Christian Concepts
Suicide, Heaven and Hell On December the fourth of last year Maison Hullibarger took his own life. He was 18. At his funeral the priest said suicide is a sin from which…
The Centerpiece of Christmas
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…
The Ninth Reindeer
“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…
Testing our Christmas IQ
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…
Midnight Cry coming to Mt. Olive Baptist Church
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…
From the Pulpit
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…
Don’t be a Thanksgiving Turkey
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…
Researched ways for better holidays
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…
First Baptist Church is a collection site for Operation Christmas Child gifts
Debbie Snapp ECB Publishing, Inc. First Baptist Church Monticello will open its doors this year to collect Operation Christmas Child gifts for children in need, beginning on Nov. 12. This Jefferson County…
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They Gave Their Yesterdays for Our Todays By Pastor John Hicks, First United Methodist Church On November 11, we honor those men and women who have served in our armed forces. When…
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Live Life at a Different Altitude “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long…
Waukeenah United Methodist Church Thrift Store closing
Debbie Snapp ECB Publishing, Inc. The Waukeenah United Methodist Church Thrift Store, located at the corner of highways 259 and 27 will be closing its doors for good on October 20. From…
Ebenezer Baptist Church celebrates 190 years
Debbie Snapp, ECB Publishing, Inc. Rev. Andrew Creel and the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located at 446 Hatchett Road in Lamont, off Highway 19 about one mile south of Interstate 10,…
New community worship service made for all
Debbie Snapp, ECB Publishing, Inc. “For The County” is a new weekly worship service designed to be modern, welcoming, casual and open to all people. The service will be held every Sunday…
Jellystone Park Jam starts this week!
Showcasing more than 20 Christian music groups during five-day event Story Submitted Jellystone Park Jam, one of North Florida’s largest multi-day gospel music events, will get under way this week with over…