Category Archives: Opinions
Do we see our need for God’s refining fire?
God has always been disappointed when someone is more concerned with what they want to do than what He requires of them. 
Since mankind fell in the garden, our carnal nature has been persuading and influencing our decisions and specializes in the skills of compromising and justifying. Self-deception is common, and only a few realize our highest responsibility is to obey Him. Many believe that God is real and accept His blessings of love and forgiveness,
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Courier Letters to the Editor 9-23-26
Dear Editor,
I want to write and say how much I appreciate the Pickens County Courier. You have a good balance of news. Something for everyone, not just big-time world news.
Years ago, my late mother said of a local weekly newspaper that she liked it better than the big-city newspapers because it had what she wanted to read. Local news about the people she knew and wanted to hear about and local happenings. Believe it or not, many people still want that even today.
There is TV, radio and the internet, yet there is still just something about a hometown weekly newspaper that is appealing. We have to wait an entire week between events printed in the paper to get an answer, not immediate gratification like the internet.
Do you remember when you ordered an item out of a catalog and it said “allow six to eight weeks for delivery?” It usually took six weeks. You had time to wonder about when it would arrive and you’d be like a child on Christmas morning when opening up the package. I miss those days!
One thing I love about the paper is when there is a story that covers the page. I remember one about the book where a black couple escaped slavery. I ordered the book and read it. In a “hurry up and get it done yesterday” world, it’s nice to have something to look forward to each week.
Sometimes less is better
R searchers studying how the body responds to exercise had some very surprising results recently. While the study document was packed with medical terms and graphs, the end result was clear. In this case, when it came to one particular exercise, it turned out that less was better than more.
One group of participants completed six 30-second exercises called sprint interval training (SIT), working at maximum intense effort on an exercise bike. They rested for four minutes between each exercise. The other group of participants had a fairly leisurely experience on an exercise bike, pedaling at moderate speed for 90 minutes.
Blood samples were taken just before any exercise was started, when the exercise was finished
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When candidates don’t show up, voters shouldn’t lose out
Our job as a nonpartisan organization isn’t to tell voters who to support. It’s to make sure they have the information they need to decide for themselves.
One of the ways we do that is by hosting candidate forums. A traditional candidate forum brings candidates from the parties represented in a race together to answer questions from a moderator, with each candidate given the same questions and the same amount of time to respond.
But candidates don’t always participate. When candidates from
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Should have read the Bible
In the early 1840s, a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery. A doctor 
had performed an autopsy. Then he went directly to the delivery room and delivered a baby.
Soon after the delivery, the mother died. Semmelweis determined the doctors hands were covered in a substance that caused the mother’s death and insisted doctors wash their hands often and with a cleansing agent.
He presented evidence their hands were transferring
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Choose to keep your face toward the light
Since before the world was made, God has known you and loved you. He has never taken His eyes away or ignored you.
If you were to write down all the blessings and victories He’s provided, they would prove He has called you, saved you, and has been guiding and helping you every day of your life. You might say, it doesn’t seem like it, but remember, many times we made decisions that were not a part of His plan.
It’s common to be filled with a mixture of emotions. Worry, stress, sadness, and anxiety are everywhere, but just because there is a tornado of events going
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Beware the supplements on TV
If you’re home during the day and have spent much time with the television on, you’ve no doubt been inundated with advertising for supplements that promise to change your life. By the time you’ve heard those ads 30 times you can probably quote them word for word. And at some point you might even be tempted to just dial that number and place an order.
Don’t do it.
Just because companies create slick ads that sound like they’ll solve all your problems doesn’t mean it’s safe for you to use their products, especially if you
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