by vfcadmin | Nov 5, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Whom Do You Admire? Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer We all need heroes, people we can point to and say, “I want to be like that.” While there are many exceptional people in the church now and throughout history, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish which person is worthy...
by vfcadmin | Nov 4, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
I asked Jesus to come into my life as my Savior and to rule over my life as Lord when I was a somewhat rebellious, needy, senior in high school. I was set… I thought… seven years later that I had life knocked! I had finished college, been awarded my pilot wings by the...
by vfcadmin | Oct 30, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
(We are Sent to Disciple an Insane World as Sheep Among Wolves) Habakkuk 3 I have a pastor friend who recently returned from Ukraine. He spent a few weeks there ministering to the thousands of fellow Christians in that presently ravaged land. His main message request...
by vfcadmin | Oct 29, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Characteristics of Love Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Over the last few months, a recurring theme in my reading and thinking has been love, specifically the love of God, agape in Greek. One of my favorite C. S. Lewis books is The Four Loves. Based on a series of radio...
by Ventures Staff | Oct 28, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
It was exactly 73 years ago this week that I did the one thing that transformed me from playing god to having a relationship with the true living God. The main thing that brought me to the church I attended was their sponsoring of a Boy Scout troop that I joined. I...
by vfcadmin | Oct 23, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
“If there is one thing that our tense age needs, it is a guidance more than human. Today scientific brilliance and spiritual blindness are a frightening union. In its restless cleverness the human brain has brought on us a world situation just about beyond the limits...
by vfcadmin | Oct 22, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Fear, Stress, and Hope Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer On August 25, 2025, we had an active shooter alert on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Although the situation proved to be a hoax with no one injured and no gunman found, the impact of this event...
by Ventures Staff | Oct 21, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
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...
by vfcadmin | Oct 16, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
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...
by vfcadmin | Oct 15, 2025 | Year of Reflection
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...
