It is widely accepted that the original twelve that Jesus called were between their late teens to late twenties. Most of the young men in that culture had completed their study of the Torah by the age of 13. So, just because someone is young, doesn’t mean that God can’t...

This Changes Everything Some experiences in our lifetimes we are sure we will never forget. And many of those experiences have caused our outlook and lifestyles to change for the better. The same applied to Jesus’ disciples as they experienced what life was like while following Him. Yet, just about...

For many who work (or worked) five days a week, Fridays marked the end of what might have been a long, long week. It has been celebrated by working people for a very long time as the start of the weekend, and the general consensus is that Fridays are a...

a2 + b2 = c2 Do you remember that Pythagorean theorem that you learned in high school geometry class? Well, it has been said that mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras used the letter ‘Y’ as a symbol of a fork in the road where the lower stem represents your ‘undecided’ years as a...

The Sabine Women Around 750 B.C., the Romans were at war with their neighbors, the Sabines. It was a bitter fight that culminated in the two armies meeting in the Roman Forum for the final battle. As the two armies charged each other, the Sabine women – wives of Romans...

Disrupting the Status Quo  Since the fall of mankind, our broken nature is to only look out for ourselves, many times at the expense of others. Unfortunately, that has too often been realized in history past. It’s been the way of many, and the cost has been much suffering, pain,...

Choose Wisely According to researchers at Cornell University, the average adult makes approximately 35,000 remotely conscious choices every day. Accounting for about 7 hours of sleep, that means that while we are awake we make about 2,000 choices per hour, or about one every two seconds. Like changing lanes on...

Joy in the Journey Think about the last time you took a family vacation. While the destination was the goal, sometimes experiences along the way change your perspective. Maybe it was seeing a roadside oddity or it was an impromptu track and field event of running through an airport to...

Strange Rules There was an old urban legend that circulated about stating that there was a law in the state of Alabama that made it “illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church”. The supposed intent of the law was “to maintain decorum” and “prevent intentional disruptions...

The Results are In We want to thank all of you who participated in the voting process that took place from Sunday, January 18th through Sunday, February 1st. During that time, over 160 paper ballots and electronic ballots were received, and this past Monday board members Joyce Benedict, Ed Herald, and Jean Showalter...