by Ventures Staff | Oct 14, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
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...
by Ventures Staff | Oct 9, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
Is it not obvious to people seeking the truth about mankind’s reality that they have a serious problem in establishing a permanent peace, prosperity, place, progress and perfection? Since the Tower of Babel (let’s say around 3000 BCE) when the people decided they...
by vfcadmin | Oct 8, 2025 | Year of Reflection
I’ve Been to Mother Jones’s Grave Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer One June many years ago I was driving through southern Illinois and happened on the Union Miners Cemetery, near Mount Olive, and the monument to Mother Jones. Mary Harris Jones was, to quote her page on...
by Ventures Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
All racial discord ends if we believe Every truly powerful preacher should go to the pulpit each Sunday with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other! So spoke a nationally recognized seminary professor. If America is to calm, conquer and create a new...
by vfcadmin | Oct 1, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Psalms and Conversation Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer One of the most memorable spiritual experiences of my life occurred on the campus of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. I was attending a conference at the school when a tornado warning sent us to the basement...
by Ventures Staff | Sep 30, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
Every truly powerful preacher should go to the pulpit each Sunday with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other! So spoke a nationally recognized seminary professor! If America is to calm, conquer and create a new unity out of our present crisis and chaos,...
by vfcadmin | Sep 24, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Stepping on Legos Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Not long ago at our church Pastor David Montgomery was preaching on the salt and light verses in Matthew 5. Among his many other talents, Pastor Dave makes use of apt illustrations. In this case he was talking about...
by vfcadmin | Sep 17, 2025 | Year of Reflection
God Loves Righteousness Too Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer A friend and I were discussing the response of some people to the Old Testament accounts of the wrath of God. Her pastor preaches from the Old Testament, but some people “step outside” when he touches on such...
by vfcadmin | Sep 10, 2025 | Year of Reflection
The Gift of Simplicity Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer Some 250 years ago the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, a.k.a. The Shakers, settled in America. The sect was an offshoot of English Quakers founded by Ann Lee and known for their communal...
by vfcadmin | Sep 3, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Liberty in the Balance Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In last week’s essay I made a somewhat arbitrary distinction between freedom and liberty so that we could look at personal freedom versus liberty within a community or government. The kind of freedom we have in...
