By Janice Barlow A SHORT LESSON IN MONEY MANAGEMENT IT’S BEEN ABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS since the toilet paper panic started. Shopping carts were loaded with the necessary rolls, as more people hurried to big box stores and grocery stores to nab what they could. Some places put limits on how much you could buy. We…
Read moreDIVISIONS RUN DEEP
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By Janice M. Barlow PEOPLE HAVE AN INNATE NEED to be at odds with each other. This desire is recognized on many levels. Let’s touch on each of them and hone in on the last one. First, we are at odds with enemy nations. Countries like Afghanistan have only recently become our enemy, taking…
Read moreVoting For The Greater Of Two Evils
By Dennis Lange PERHAPS THE MOST COMMON rallying cry of conservative third parties like the Libertarians is, “Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.” An article by Christian Libertarians stated, ” Search the Scriptures front and back, and you will find no reference to or justification for engaging…
Read moreWhose Lives Matter And Where Does BLM Draw The Line?
By Janice Barlow A GO-TO WORD IN RECENT DAYS IS CHAOS. Keeping in mind that God is not the author of confusion, (1 Corinthians 14:33), and that God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever, (Hebrews 13:8), the source of this chaos needs to originate from somewhere other than God. Where there is chaos, where there…
Read moreConfirming The Bias of Political Lies
By Janice M. Barlow WITH THE APPROACH of the election, the inundation of lies on both sides to destroy the opponent is nothing new. But because it can be done on social media, the lies can spread like wildfire. And sites such as Facebook can selectively choose which videos, ads, memes, articles, posts, and comments…
Read moreAll Dogs Go To Heaven, And Some Cats
By David Anderson After a record-setting months-on-end of raining cats and dogs, and although during the deluge it seems very much in doubt that the sun will ever shine, the wonderful, yellow, happy-face, life-smiling orb again rises. Youth baseball games – after innumerable practices in the rain and the mud, having given new meaning to…
Read moreA Wedding Ring Reminder
By David Anderson My wedding ring saved my finger. My wife’s played a part in saving her life. Sometimes, lost in thought, I’ll catch myself absently twisting and turning it round and round. My best friend of 48-years-marriage made it herself. Cast from a simple circle of wax melted away in the white-hot heat of…
Read moreMask Confusion
By Todd Freeman WITH ALL THE PRESSURE to wear masks, why is there so little instruction about them? Which ones work? Which ones don’t, and which ones actually pose a danger? WE know that COVID-19 is spread by inhaling droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze. This is why most transmissions are among family…
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