The Heart of Being Thankful

In the most expressive language on earth, Greek, there are six different words that express the thoughts of thanksgiving. Our national holiday includes the thoughts of: to thank, give thanks, being thankful, possessing thankfulness, doing thanksgiving or to be a...

Remember Your Promised Resurrection

Three Weeks ago the Christian church celebrated Easter Sunday. Most Christians, I fear, have already forgotten that day, and the great lesson the celebration is supposed to teach—resurrection! We talk much about Christ being raised from the dead almost 2,000...
A Year of Reflections: Reflection #37

A Year of Reflections: Reflection #37

Preaching is More than Words Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer I have had a courtside view of the church in action for the last couple of years as a dear friend, her family, and their church came alongside a number of low-income residents in an apartment complex in...

Choosing Hope or Hopelessness

One of the clearly left-leaning magazines I read and mostly enjoy for their coverage recently had a full page on the unthinkable. It was a discussion of the possibility of Civil War breaking out in our America with questions of how it would work. The heated and close...