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How do you describe someone that is a good, decent, person? In my day we said they were “straight-as-a-string.”

That was James Oberhausen – straight as a string. We lost James recently – are they making any more good men like that? I hope so.

If you’ve ever gone through airport security, you know the drill.  You have to put everything you are going to take onto the airplane into bins on a rolling conveyor belt to be scanned by a TSA agent, while other TSA agents are yelling directives at you. 

The subject of instrumental music in the worship to God has caused many heated discussions through the years. Some think that God does not care about this question. Some believe that God is pleased when we praise Him with whatever means available. Our concern, however, is “What saith the Scripture” (Rom. 4:3)? Let us read the passages in the New Testament that discuss singing, and then make some observations.

Theme Nights Make Meal Planning Easy

Meal planning can make healthy eating easier for you and your family. Meal planning is the process of looking ahead at the week and determining what meals to prepare each day. The simple act of planning ahead for healthy meals can help families stick to a food budget, have balanced meals, and spend more time together at family meals. While these benefits are wonderful, coming up with exciting recipes each week can be tough!

There are certain songs that are just so popular that they’ve been covered by many different artists.  For instance, “Wild Night, written by Van Morrison in 1971.  Van was the first to record the song but he certainly wasn’t the last.

Advice has been defined as the guidance or recommendations offered with regard to sensible future action. In our society, advice is freely handed out, generally in casual conversation without much prior thought. Like most, I’ve both given and gotten advice – some bad and some good.

I had first planned to pontificate some – bit I’ll let that go for now:

Harvest season is in full swing and that means a lot of farm equipment is on the roadways.  Farmers are forced to move large equipment from field to field and farm to farm as they harvest their 2019 crops.  Today’s farm machinery is much wider than that of just a few years ago.  A typical farm convoy you will encounter will have a pickup truck with flashing lights, a large tractor with dual wheels that might be 17 feet wide pul

My husband, Garey, can’t hear, and I’m quickly closing in on that condition myself.  We’re not deaf, we just can’t understand some of the words being said to us.  We’re constantly repeating things for one another, and w

            Luke 17:32 (“Remember Lot’s wife”) has reference to what happened to Lot’s wife after the family fled Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. As Lot and his family were leaving (II Pet. 2:6-9), they were warned not to look back to the city lest they “be consumed” (Gen. 19:17).