Columns

The new leader of Brazil may be a sign of better conditions

January 17, 2019 Robert McDowell

While we who revere the rule of law in the United States seem faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles facing PRESDT-45 in his crusade to “drain the swamp” and return government to proper conduct and direction, there seems to have been some hopeful signs brewing south of the Panama Canal which have been carefully kept behind…

A mother’s kiss has an incredible ability to offer compassion

January 17, 2019 Walker Moore

It was our second day in Budapest. Our team had spent the first day getting over jet lag and acquainting ourselves with our new surroundings. This morning, we were to start working with a group of church planters about an hour south of the city. Our teams always travel with a 75-pound public address system…

Hysteria is based on computer guessing

January 17, 2019 Tom Harris Jay Lehr

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels. They are exercising…

We had smooth sailing on a Carnival Christmas cruise

January 10, 2019 Charles Biggs

Taking an ocean cruise is like being rich for seven days. In December, we booked passage on Carnival’s Vista and set sail out of Galveston, Texas, with destinations in Honduras, Belize and Cozumel, Mexico. We took our two sons and daughter-in-law. Our daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter couldn’t join us due to his starting a new…

Energy innovation can come without government funding

January 10, 2019 Robert McDowell

The headline of a story in the December 9 issue of the daily news(?)paper immediately caught my eye so it had to be read. The headline read, “Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go green,” and carried the byline of Kelvin Chan of Associated Press. As all too often happens, the headline was…

Despite hiccups, have a happy New Year!

January 10, 2019 Walker Moore

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

January 3, 2019 Charles Biggs

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

January 3, 2019 Robert McDowell

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

January 3, 2019 Walker Moore

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

December 20, 2018 Charles Biggs

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…