by The Observer Staff | May 31, 2023 | Bruce Green, Column
RELIGION — “Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.” (Hebrews 3:1) Do you know what the athletes who will compete in the next Olympic games are...
by The Observer Staff | May 31, 2023 | Column, Walt Albritton
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — In the beginning my preaching was so poor that some people were going to sleep before I got halfway to the benediction. Lacking confidence, I was using a manuscript and reading my sermons. With characteristic candor, my dear wife finally...
by The Observer Staff | May 24, 2023 | Community, Education, Schools
BY KENDYL HOLLINGSWORTH KENDYLH@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM AUBURN — Local Christians who feel called into vocational ministry won’t have to travel far to receive that instruction. Twelve churches across Lee County have partnered with Christ Our Redeemer Seminary, the area’s...
by The Observer Staff | May 24, 2023 | Bruce Green, Column
By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — In Hebrews 2:6ff, the writer uses Psalm 8 to make the point that Jesus’ humanity — being made a little lower than the angels — was actually the means by which He was able to win back humanity’s lost glory and dominion. What was lost in Eden...
by The Observer Staff | May 24, 2023 | Column, Walt Albritton
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — I love discovering a captivating new idea, like the one I found in “Resilient,” John Eldredge’s recent book — that salvation is a new attachment. Equally exciting was learning that one of my favorite authors considered this the most...
