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Despite hiccups, have a happy New Year!

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Our Christmas and New Year’s Day can best be summed up with the words of Roberts Burn in his poem, To a Mouse: “The best-laid plans of Mice and Men go oft awry.” I think the mice made out better than we did. Our family had planned to gather on Christmas Eve, enjoy a meal,…

A look back at my previous January prediction columns

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Here are some of my past predictions and New Year’s resolutions. In January of 2011 I wrote: Here are my New Year resolutions. I will pray for my son Brian every day, especially when he deploys to Afghanistan with the Oklahoma National Guard. I will try to buy fewer products made in China. I will…

Looking forward to 2019, we must maintain our republic

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Finally we can put to bed and in the files of history the year 2018. It was a very wild and difficult year indeed.  However, as it has been covered extensively and to many of us our dismay and disgust.  So it seems to me to be time to look ahead to the future and…

Happy New Year! and blessings from Walker, Titus, Cohen

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The greatest gift is the salvation given to us through our Lord Jesus Christ. But today, I want to write about the second greatest gift, and that is the gift of friendship. To me, the measure of a person does not lie in their wealth but in the number of people who call them friend….

The message of Christmas? Reconciliation with Christ

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Christmas is not about giving. Christmas is not about peace on Earth. Christmas is not about family. Christmas is not a little baby. These are all of elements of how we celebrate Christmas in America. But the core of Christmas is that God took the form of man and in humility was born of a…

The media should show more respect to President Trump

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It seems that even on a week where the attention of our nation should have been totally focused on the departure of PRESGB-41 to a better life and reunion with his FLOTUS in Heaven (especially since PRESDT-45 had declared December 6 as a national holiday with banks, government offices and USPS closed in observance of…

At Christmas, we rejoice at the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ

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As we come to the final days of the year 2018 we find the major observation of importance to those of us in the Christian family of believers, with Monday marking Christmas Eve.  The event that has become, in my opinion, far too commercialized with emphasis on parties, gifts and other diversions from the true…

Do you hear what I hear? The Moore Family wishes you hope

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It’s no secret that I love this time of the year, especially the music that accompanies it. For reasons known only to God, each year, a single song resonates through my heart and soul. It is never the same song two years in a row; last year, it was Little Drummer Boy. The “Pa rum…

Looking for a great Christmas gift? How about a book?

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Are you stuck for good ideas for Christmas gifts this year? Is there someone on your list who doesn’t need anything and won’t toss out any hints? A gift subscription to the Tulsa Beacon would be nice. A lot of folks do that. At the giver’s request, we will send a Christmas card (not a…

The month of December has become meaningful for many

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Now that the celebration of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, we turn to some more serious observances in the month of December.  This began with the first Friday this year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. In my family, it has been nine years since my wife Anne was released…