by vfcadmin | Dec 17, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Riding Lessons Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer A while back my great nephew, Enoch, decided he wanted to learn to ride a horse. His grandmother (my sister Sandra) told him she’d teach him. When it came time for his first lesson, she put him up on her quarter horse mare,...
by vfcadmin | Dec 16, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in March 2025.] It’s baseball season again! I recall a girl’s baseball game where one girl hit her very first home run. She missed touching first base and turned back to do so only to throw her knee out of joint. She fell...
by vfcadmin | Dec 11, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
In war battles have to be fought! There is no option if victory is prized and envisioned. To refuse the “price of battle” is to surrender your destiny to the will of an enemy. The consequences are tragic! Too many men in the church (including some pastors, sad to...
by vfcadmin | Dec 10, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Picture Puzzles and Insights Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Putting together a jigsaw puzzle is one of those quiet pleasures many of us enjoy. Things can go awry, especially if an unwatched cat pilfers a piece, but a finished picture puzzle, especially a 1000 piece...
by vfcadmin | Dec 9, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in September 2022.] I write today as a bipartisan patriot, a student of history and our Founder’s Declaration and Constitution, a veteran of 33 years in the US Air Force, a loyal and proud American of almost 90 years, a...
by vfcadmin | Dec 7, 2025 | advent, Year of Reflection
The Coming of Peace (2nd Sunday of Advent) Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer The second theme of Advent is peace. From one perspective, human history is a catalog of conflicts. If we are speaking of the history of the United States we start with the Revolution, follow it...
by Ventures Staff | Dec 4, 2025 | Live it Up, NWA D/G Articles
Sure Victory If you were to ask me to name the most unbelievable truth of Christianity my answer would be easy! Simply put it’s this … that God does love me like I am and will forgive me for my failures, attitudes, selfishness, and messes. I need only to be honest...
by vfcadmin | Dec 3, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Remorse, the Zero Sum Game Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Back when it was new, I became a fan of Jan Karon’s delightful series, “The Mitford Years.” The first book, At Home in Mitford, was released in 1994 followed by 13 more with the 15th novel to be released this...
by vfcadmin | Dec 2, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally posted October 2021.] The first time I read the words of Founder and then President Thomas Jefferson I was deeply moved by his statement and I have never forgotten them: The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the...
by vfcadmin | Nov 30, 2025 | Year of Reflection
The Coming of Hope (1st Sunday of Advent)Ruth Ann Stites, Staff WriterAs we approach the end of this year we enter Advent season. The four Sundays leading up to Christmas offer us the opportunity to focus our hearts and minds on what, or rather who, Christmas is all...
