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Your Answer is in the Word Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” II Timothy 2:15 Remember long division from your childhood studies? It was most every elementary school kid’s least favorite mathematical endeavor. Why? Well, it usually wasn’t because the concept behind division
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Not being scared
BY DAWN REED It is my great privilege to be a dental assistant at a pediatric practice. I didn’t find out what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was 44. (Late bloomer.) Most people despise going to the dentist. They hate it like, well, a toothache. Despite that, helping kids and
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Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH We are at the beginning of a very special time of the year. The season that begins this week and runs through New Year has come to be known as the holiday season. The word “holiday” is a shortened form of what ancient people called “the holy days.”
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Your Answer is in the Word
BY GREG CRUM “Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear
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Relishing Thanksgiving
BY DAWN REED The difference between a Northern cook and a Southern one is often revealed during the holidays. I married a man from the South. He was living in Sidney at the time, but he had roots in Georgia and Florida. He came from a place of black-eyed peas, savory ham, and cornbread dressing
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Thorns or apples?
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH In a backyard, there once lived an apple tree and a thorn bush. The apple tree produced nice juicy apples that everyone liked to eat. Kids would climb up the tree and pluck the apples. Worms would eat the ones that fell on the ground. Birds would peck
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You’re All Right!
BY GREG CRUM “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11 Psalm 84:11 is an amazing promise—the promise from God of every good thing to be given, but there is a condition to this
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Telling the Story: Remembering our veterans
BY DAWN REED Forgetting things is a pet peeve of mine. Oh, it’s not a big deal to me if you forget stuff. It’s when I forget stuff that it drives me bonkers. I’ve said for years that I wouldn’t have been able to play sports because I so hate it when I drop the
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Freedom to fail is freedom to excel
BY GREG CRUM “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:6 God rewards the seekers, those that boldly move forward toward Him. Growing up in church there were times
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Telling the story: One small thing
BY DAWN REED Several years ago, I started having chest pains-not terrible, but consistent. It concerned me, but I kept it to myself. Just before that, totally unsolicited, my pharmacist friend mentioned that heart disease is a leading cause of death in women over 50. Yay. I was over 50. After a few weeks of
