Category Archives: Opinions
Find your challenge
Philippians 4:12-13 “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all 
things through Christ which strengthens me.”
One of life’s greatest rewards is to find a challenge, study it, work it and achieve it! To be challenged is to be motivated. Motivation is the key to action and ultimately success and that great feeling of accomplishment.
Unchallenged people may be sad and have not a clue why. An uncle retired from an automotive plant in Ohio and moved back to
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It is faith that builds peace
There is a fundamental relationship between faith and peace. We are told that the harvest of faith is peace. But what is the nature of this peace and how do we understand it?
First and most importantly, there is peace that results from relationship with God, which is the very foundation of faith itself; this means the knowledge of God, devotion and servitude to Him. This peace is transcendent, eternal, and beyond any limitations of materiality. It is the Light of the holy spirit that emanates from God and illumines our hearts; it flows to our being as we turn obediently to Him, conferring on us an inner state of faith and peace.
An obligatory and inseparable aspect of this peace, is being at peace with each other. In the Beatitudes, Jesus tells us that God loves and blesses peacemakers, and calls them His children. This implies that relationship to
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The devastating effects of deception
For the next couple of weeks, I want to talk about the secret chambers of our conscience that contains our thoughts, emotions, attitudes, convictions and basically who we really are.
Some will say they wear their feelings on their sleeves and how transparent they are to everyone. I admire these individuals as they seem to have a personality that is open, humble and honest with nothing to hide.
However, just because a person allows themselves to be fearless and
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Local papers keep communities strong
Strong communities don’t just happen. They rely on connection—residents knowing what’s going on, 
businesses reaching the customers who keep them open and citizens having the facts to make good decisions. Local newspapers provide that connection in ways no other source can.
In today’s fractured media environment, trust is the rarest commodity. Confidence in “the media” is low. Only 18 percent of Americans say they trust news on social platforms and fewer than one in four trust cable networks. But nearly two-thirds say they trust their local newspaper—more than double the confidence placed in most other outlets.
In an era when anyone can post anything online, that clarity makes newspapers stand apart.
Newspapers provide the facts that keep civic life running: city budgets, school board debates and local elections that rarely make national headlines but matter most to daily life. They also highlight the
The original AI: Newspapers run on accurate information
Artificial intelligence is going to transform everything we watch, hear and read. You can already see it happening.
Asking and AI search engine a question about an obscure fact can yield quick and surprisingly detailed responses. Type in a cellphone model number and you’re suddenly a highly informed consumer. And when it comes to transforming legendary television show casts into babies, AI is world-class.
But news? AI-fueled news poses problems.
The first is that news is about reality. AI provides tools to
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Washing the stains and ironing the wrinkles
Humans do not enjoy being told that God will judge every person, and one day we will meet Him face-to-face and give an account of our lives.
This is not an idea created by Bible teachers to scare people; it’s a truth relayed from what God has promised in His Word. There are many strange opinions about who God is, what He wants, and our responsibilities as His followers, but the bottom line to lenient interpretations can be explained. Humans are crafty creatures who are always looking to receive something for nothing. Our ability and desire to live in denial intentionally prevent us
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Don’t touch the thermostat
By the time you read this, many of us in cold-weather areas will be listening for (and dreading) the click sound that heralds the arrival of warm air through the furnace vents. The dread comes in when we 
mentally calculate just how much it’s costing us to stay warm.
The temptation, always, is to set the thermostat at a lower temperature and cut costs. However, for seniors this can be dangerous. We’re no longer physically equipped to handle
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Like on bird’s feet
Matthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
As a young boy roaming around the fields and forests of Western Kentucky, seen were many of the works of our Creator and I had not a clue what was being witnessed.
One example is fish in a farm pond that had not been stocked with fish. A local farmer had a new pond
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Out of touch with reality
Philippians 2:1-2 “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”
A word we often hear in this day in age is “connected.” To be connected is to be joined together in agreement of our belief in Christ Jesus as our God and our Creator (John 1:1-3).
I once taught a children’s lesson with an old style
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You’re Fired
Dear Editor,
You’re fired!
That is what some people are hearing at work nowadays for comments they made on social media about Charlie Kirk.
People are saying words have consequences, so don’t feel sad for someone who loses
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