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Raising Awareness About Mental Health

CONTRIBUTED BYSEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE OPINION — The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a series of challenges unlike any we’ve witnessed during our lifetime. Society as we knew it shut down. We forced students into online classrooms, restricted nursing home...

Dates to Recognize and Honor Americans

Local veteran service organizations want all citizens to recognize and remember two special days in the month of September. The first date is Sept. 11. This day is known as Patriot Day. Twenty-one years ago on this day America was under attack. We must pause and...

The Fist Bump That Was Seen ‘Round the World

CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER OPINION — On his four-day trip to the Middle East, President Joe Biden gave a new definition to  former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of “Leading from Behind,” and it is not good. “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” refers to...

Inflation is Everywhere

CONTRIBUTED BY SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE OPINION — You don’t have to look far to see that inflation is impacting everything, everywhere. Costs of gas, food  and housing are shooting up across the country to levels not seen since the early 1980s....
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An identity for all times

By Bruce Green Peter wrote to disciples who were being harassed because they had chosen to follow Jesus (4:16). There’s nothing to suggest their...

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Living as exiles

By Bruce Green Peter wrote to “exiles scattered throughout” five Roman provinces. They lived on a land bridge between Europe and Asia that is known...

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Too Wonderful for Words

By Bruce Green When Peter wrote to the Jewish disciples dispersed in five Roman provinces of Asia Minor (present day Turkey), he told them that even...

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From God’s point of view

By Bruce Green Paul speaks about weapons of divine power capable of “demolishing strongholds” in 2 Corinthians 10:3. He alluded to them earlier in...

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