THE HARDEST COMMAND IN THE BIBLE is “Love your enemy.” Another tough one is “Love your neighbor.” But what happens if your enemy and your neighbor are one and the same?
In the state where I’m from, there was no shortage of bad neighbors; I used to be one of them.
By Pastor Steve Sanchez
SOME MAY DIE. Most won’t. Some will drop out or change their minds about college, while others will train for a trade. Others may shack up or get married, while the majority, unfortunately, will get their hearts broken. Disease. Setbacks. Disappointments. Freedom and not knowing what to do with it.
Becky Craven, a leader in a world-wide women’s organization, told the following story:
“We have a dear friend who was a train engineer. One day while he was driving a train on his route, he spotted a car stopped on the track ahead of him. He quickly realized that the car was stuck and unable to cross the track.
Before arriving in Johnson City, I never, ever heard of a Baccalaureate service, much less participated in one, so I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that this has been an-end-of the-school-year tradition for graduating seniors of LBJ High for many years. But since it has a particularly Christian component, I was wondering how it could even be legal, since I came from a state that outlawed Jesus decades ago.
"EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE" is the latest sensation on NetFlix, "a chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years."
Bundy was a notorious serial killer who confessed to murdering over thirty victims, as well as other horrible crimes; it was his philosophy about morality that allowed him to do these horrible things.
He wrote, ..."I discovered that to become truly free, truly unfett ...
In 1838, my great-great grandfather, Tarlton Lewis, along with several thousand other converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gathered in Missouri. They were unwelcome, not so much because of their religion, but because they were not sympathetic to slavery. The locals perceived, and with good reason, that the “Mormon” influx could decide whether or not Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state.
Faith…that is a big word that encompasses a lot of definitions. What is it?
Faith is a feeling of belief and something that allows us, as people, to get through difficulties life presents. It’s that feeling of “I won’t give up” or “ I won’t stop” it’s self actualization, it’s faith, it’s hope and it’s belief in a greater power.
Please join us in learning more about this debilitating disease that is stealing our most precious possessions, our memories.
THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is heart disease at 635,260 from data compiled in 2017. The next highest cause of death is cancer at 598,038. Number three: Unintentional injuries caused by accidents at 161,374.
I received an email awhile ago that said this:
“STATISTICS DON'T LIE!
While serving as principal of an alternative school, I was holding a parent conference. In attendance were a tall, athletic student and his mother. Representing the school, besides myself, was a counselor, an assistant principal and a former Marine drill sergeant who served as one of the boy’s teachers. In the course of the meeting the boy swore at his mother.
This Sunday commemorates the greatest miracle that ever took place on earth: Jesus Christ rose from the dead! The very Christian faith hinges on this fact: that an innocent man died for the sins of the world, was buried, and on the third day rose again. The Resurrection has been the great hope of every Christian for the last two thousand years.
