Dear Editor, The Evening Shade Community organization would like to thank the following people and businesses for their donations to our Turkey shoot last month. Thank you, Forever Memories, Harps Foo...

Are you a happy Christian? Are you a faithful Christian? As this year is coming to a close, have you thought about your vow to be faithful to God when He saved you? The Christian, who loves God and Hi...

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principl...

I think back on my adventures (as I like to call them) with my friend Kevin and I wonder why I am his friend? It might be for entertainment. We certainly have had some interesting times. I think about...

DON’T LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED! KNOW JESUS CHRIST, KNOW ETERNAL LIFE! NO JESUS CHRIST, NO ETERNAL LIFE! I LOVE JESUS CHRIST! JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOR! PRAISE JESUS CHRIST’S HOLY NAME! Matt...

Mark 12:30 “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.” The love of God is the fir...

“But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night” “He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf al...

Last week I told about my experience as an arsonist with my good friend Kevin down at Lequire. Well, I don’t think its arson when it is an abandoned and condemned house owned by the guy who you are he...

HAVE JOY IN THE LORD! RAISE JESUS CHRIST’S HOLY NAME! Philippians 4:1-23 1Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 2I besee...

John 3:15-16 “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not peris...

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life”... Unbeliever, have you...

When we consider ways to manage our finances, certain words may come to mind — savings, income, debt, interest. However, there are several considerations besides money that can impact a household’s ov...

Recently Jill and I were recounting some of my adventures, or maybe I should say my misadventures! One of them that still makes her cringe is the “house afire” incident down in Lequire (south of Stigl...

THE HEART OF MAN IS VERY EVIL! WICKED, WICKED, WICKED! ONLY JESUS CHRIST CAN CHANGE THE HEART OF MAN! Genesis 6:5-6 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagi...

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. In my life I had needed to travel a lot. Six years o...

“And it came to pass after many days that the word of the I Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth” (1 Kings 18:1). “So Elijah...

Last weekend I went to Tulsa and met my siblings. My baby brother was there with his wife. I say baby brother with tongue-incheek as Marty is about 6’5’ when standing straight up. He tips the scales a...

BE THE BEST WORKER IN GOD’S VINEYARD THAT GOD KNOWS YOU/ME/WE CAN BE! GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO BE ABOUT HIS LOVE AND BUSINESS! Matthew 21:1-46 1And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Be...

2 Samuiel 7:10 “Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness affli...

Burden “.. .Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord ...