The next day the resort had a driver deliver us to the ATV excursion. Alex and I both knew how to drive an ATV but Sydney didn’t, so we ended up trading all ours in for a Polaris RZR so we could all r...

Isaiah 28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For those lying refuges, to which you trust, will not be a...

“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms” (Ps 95:1-2). Let’s S...

Repent! Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand! Mark 1:14-15, 14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time ...

Vian Baptist Church 1. Properly, that which the mind thinks. Thought is either the act or operation of the mind, when attending to a particular subject or thing or it is the idea consequent on that op...

AROUND TOWN Everyone told me once you landed you were not to speak or buy anything from anyone; you were to walk straight through to get your visa and luggage and find your escort, taxi or bus to your...

Scribbles and Poems by a Blackgum Mountain Boy A woman needs a man that is hers alone, Someone that provides support for her home. A person she can gladly call her best friend, A man she can rely on t...

Round Mountain Community Church Love takes no account of a suffered wrong. One characteristic of the divine kind of love is that it never takes account of a suffered wrong. I Corinthians 13:5 in the A...

“Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!” (Ps 118:1-2). “I called on the Lord… He answered me…The Lord is on my side… I will not fear.” (Ps 118:5-6). “You are my God, and I will praise You; You a...

AROUND TOWN I’ve had several readers ask me how my vacation to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico went earlier this month. My answer each time has either been “fantastic” or “wonderful!” I can honestly say there...

Round Mountain Community Church The Way to Success I Corinthians 13:13, And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (love). I John 4:8, He that loveth not k...

“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is...

Psalms 55:1-6 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complain...

Scribbles and Poems by a Blackgum Mountain Boy How you fall in love, you may not recall, Sometimes it starts from only a sweet smile. It could have occurred after a date or two, You will soon say, “I ...

The Christian Union Station You are not an accident! You have a marvelous purpose. You are a masterful creation of God! Psst! Your purpose is to be about the Father’s business. This old world’s, or sh...

I attended the memorial service for Jim Mayo on October 11 in Salli-saw. I considered Jim the newspaper guru – the man you went to for answers when you had a newspaper problem. Of course I respected h...

Shelly Baker of Vian decided to go to college for the first time in her life nearly two years ago. Baker, 48, says she decided to pursue a degree in nursing and has been attending Carl Albert State Co...

Proverbs 4:20-23...My son attend to my words, incline thine ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life to those that find them, an...

The day we met, I knew I wanted you, To win your love, there was nothing I wouldn’t do. This was the first time I ever felt that way, You occupy my mind both night and day. I now long to hold you clos...

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ...