Bruce Green Articles

A mailbox, a note and a good neighbor

BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION — Our mailbox leads a rather solitary existence. It interacts with our mail carrier once a day, sees either Janice or me the same amount — and that’s it — except for the many vehicles that drive by. Only the vehicles don’t always drive by. One...

Broken but blessed

OPINION — I worked as a lifeguard for a couple of summers when I was growing up. I got the job even though at the time, I hadn’t taken the course you needed for life-guard certification. The swimming pool where I was hired was in a pinch and needed someone right away,...

Happily ever laughter

OPINION — Abraham was 75 years old when he left Haran for Canaan (Genesis 12:4). God told him He would give Canaan “to your offspring” (v. 7), so he knew he would have descendants. But it didn’t happen over the next few years so when God spoke to him through a vision...

Tents, altars and sacred space

OPINION — Even though the land of Canaan would be given to his descendants, when Abraham sojourned there he and Sarah didn’t live in the best house of a high-end neighborhood. They lived in tents—as their son Isaac would and after him, his son Jacob. They were able to...
Pride and Humility: Part Two

Pride and Humility: Part Two

RELIGION — Last week we touched on prideful distortion and how it affected people like Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar and Herod. But the truth is, most who...

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Pride and Humility: Part Two

Pride and Humility: Part One

By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — You don’t have to read much of Proverbs before you understand the writer likes to use contrast to make his point. He tells...

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The Disciple and Freed Speech: Part 1

Overcoming Bad Choices 

By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika RELIGION –– 1. All choices have consequences. I throw a rock into a pond...

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The Disciple and Freed Speech: Part 1

Something We Should Value

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika RELIGION — The word “discipline” is  used 16 times in the book of...

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The Disciple and Freed Speech: Part 1

This is Liberation!

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika Lightning is an example of electricity in a raw, uncontrolled form. We...

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The Disciple and Freed Speech: Part 1

Faith and Your Rearview Mirror

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika OPELIKA — This is one of those texts that is both comforting and if we’ll...

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