Category: Faith & Family

Sheryl H. Boldt Guest Columnist When my marriage isn’t in a good place, I find it hard – even painful – to read How- to-Have-a-Better-Marriage articles. They highlight the areas my husband,…

Rev. John Hicks Guest Columnist The Scriptures apprise us that, “Blessed is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding, for the reward is more profitable than silver and yields…

Pastor Nathan Peeler Columnist On Wednesday July 16, the band Coldplay performed a concert at Gillette Stadium (home field of the New England Patriots) in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The “Kiss Cam” landed on…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. More than 100,000 children ages 0-17 are adopted into families in the United States every year. For Tanner Lee Dorr, however, adoption day didn’t come until he…

Prayer works “the earth of the heart.” In order to work the soil, one must break up the hardened dirt clods, water the ground, free it from weeds and then plant a…

Leman Ulee Church Trip Coordinator Elizabeth A.M.E. and Union Bethel A.M.E. visited Houston and New Orleans last month for their 13 Annual Church Trip. The group stayed two nights in Houston and…

What character in the Bible do you most relate to when your faith is tested? In Mark 9:22-24 (ESV), a first-century father pleaded with Jesus to help his son who had been…

According to those whose job it is to know such things, it takes about three weeks to become blind to the presence of stationary objects in our everyday worlds. Hang a new…

Belinda Albritton ECB Publishing, Inc. This year’s Camp Pickett lake took many months to plan and was definitely a hard one to pull off, but with the help of many donations to…

Rick Patrick ECB Publishing, Inc. Madison native Desmond Roberson and his musical family, The Roberson Bunch, have released their second album of gospel music. This second album, called “Growing Pains,” is already…

According to the 2025 Farmer’s Almanac, we are in the “Dog Days of Summer”  (July 3 to August 11). The term “Dog Days” traditionally refers to a period of particularly hot and…

Divorce is painful, particularly when it separates you from your children. When I was a young mother, I had to pick up and return my children to my former husband every other…

There’s a kind of peace that only comes through fire. This week, a message from my grandmother stopped me in my tracks. I read it slowly, carefully – twice – and then…

When our Founding Fathers spent weeks drafting the Declaration of Independence, they ignited a war to secure America’s freedom from Britain’s control. In an interesting twist, the process of creating this groundbreaking…

God has made us with two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one we choose to use when. There are times for planning and…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Jeff Cleghorn is a missionary who uses his skills as a pianist to spread the Gospel and point people to Jesus. He describes himself as a “musicianary”…

The foundation of our faith, every sermon and prayer, and every moral obligation are based on the fact God exists. The apostle Paul’s arguments presented in Acts 17 are as needed today…

Christian Peterson ECB Publishing, Inc. When discussing geography, the term “belt” comes up frequently. The term originated to denote areas where certain crops were grown. However, over time, it has evolved to…