by vfcadmin | Dec 25, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in December 2023.] My mind is being pulled in a dozen different directions as my column comes up on Christmas 2023. The first Christmas I remember is when my recently widowed mother spent the night with her married cousin,...
by vfcadmin | Dec 24, 2025 | Year of Reflection
To Love Like Jesus Loved Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer When Jesus came to earth He did so for everyone in the world. We are all familiar with this great truth from the third chapter of John. I referred to this passage last week but let me repeat it and examine it from...
by vfcadmin | Dec 23, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in December 2021.] Even though I am saddened and fearful about the political chaos in my beloved America and deeply concerned about increasing conflicts worldwide, not to mention the Covid pandemic, this Christmas, really...
by vfcadmin | Dec 21, 2025 | Year of Reflection
The Coming of Love (4th Sunday of Advent) Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In this final week of Advent before we reach the day of celebration of Jesus’s birth the emphasis is on love. When we look at the whole of our Advent meditations, they are all bound together with...
by vfcadmin | Dec 18, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command. — 2 Thessalonians 3:3-4 A third essential step to enter significant combat is to...
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...
