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Southern Hospitality | Serve a variety of dishes featuring fresh fruits of summer

BY ANN CIPPERLY OPINION —Peaches, blueberries, blackberries and other fresh fruits are abundant during summer. While fresh fruit is at its peak of flavor, treat your family to a variety of pies, breads, muffins, cobblers and other desserts, as well as adding fruit to...

Anchored in truth | When holy becomes ordinary

BY ROBERT MILLER OPINION — One of the unfortunate realities of life is that familiarity has a way of dulling our appreciation. I remember the very first time I stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon. I could hardly find words to describe it. Pictures don’t prepare you...

Altar Call | Remember all His benefits

OPINION — Psalm 103 was my wife’s favorite of David’s songs. She loved it. She memorized it. More than once I heard her recite all 22 verses as the basis of her testimony or a message.Dean grew up reading and loving the King James Version of the Bible. We learned to...

Kids talk about God | If you saw Jesus, how would you recognize Him?

OPINION — “If I saw Jesus, I’d probably know because he’d be glowing or floating or something,” said Caleb, 9. “Also, I think he’d have a name tag that says ‘Messiah.’”If only it were that simple.On the first Easter morning, Mary Magdalene stood outside Jesus’ empty...
Altar Call | Don’t spit against the wind

Altar Call | Yes and no

OPINION —  You are 94 and your days are numbered. Does that not trouble you? No, that does not bother me. Yes, my days are numbered, but they...

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