by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Column, Walt Albritton
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — When I was a boy, I noticed one Sunday that whenever our pastor asked us to “stand and sing,” my dad stood beside my mom, but never sang. He may have quietly hummed the tune, but I don’t think he even did that. I never asked why, and he...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BY EAST ALABAMA YOUTH FOR CHRIST AUBURN — The Samford-Cannon Foundation presented East Alabama Youth for Christ’s 37th annual Golf Classic on Monday, Oct. 17, at Auburn University Club. Numerous local businesses, restaurants, donors and YFC supporters in...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 19, 2022 | Bruce Green, Column
By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — First John is a brief but marvelously rich letter. But when you first get into it, there’s a good possibility it will overwhelm you with its repetition of a cluster of words. In its 105 verses, “know” is used 32 times, “love” is used 27...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 19, 2022 | Column, Walt Albritton
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — A young man, less than half my age, called and said, “I would like to talk with you man to man about a personal problem.” We met and talked for a while. He made me feel my counsel was helpful. I felt confident the young man would make...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 12, 2022 | Bruce Green, Column
By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — John assures the disciples he is writing in 1:1-4 of his first letter that the message they had shared with them about Christ was rooted in historical reality. There were Gnostic influencers who were spreading the heresy that Christ had not...
