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Free lunches do not fight poverty

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Wednesday, September 28. 2016

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Our fantastic Barnesville Rotary Club recently had a program presenter from a metro area club who was touting a free school lunch program in Honduras.

It seems a member of his club had taken a motorcycle trip through central America and met a starving girl at the Honduran border. He was touched and started a well-intentioned program through which hundreds of school lunches are now provided to needy students in that area. [Full Story »]

Be the parable

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, September 21. 2016

By Mike Ruffin

The other Sunday, I was preaching about Jesus again. I seem to be stuck on that subject.

Anyway, the text was Matthew 13:1-23. In the first few verses, Jesus tells a crowd what is usually called the parable of the sower (although a better name is the parable of the soils). He just tells the story and leaves it hanging there.

He offers no explanation or interpretation to the crowd, although he does later explain it to his disciples. It’s easy to imagine the people asking each other what that was all about. [Full Story »]

Muslims should back off on Sept. 11

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, September 14. 2016

Just as they want the Holocaust to be eradicated from the history books, some Muslims are trying to ‘cleanse the narrative’ when it comes to the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed more than 3000 people. [Full Story »]

When Christians read the Bible

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, September 7. 2016

By Mike Ruffin

Author’s note: this column is addressed to Christians. If you aren’t one, I hope you’ll read it anyway. Maybe it’ll help you understand better how Christians think—or at least how we’re supposed to think.

In my day job, I edit Bible study materials for adults. I recruit writers and shape their efforts into a form that’s suitable for publication. Hundreds of churches and thousands of people depend on our company to provide dependable materials to assist them in studying the Bible and following Jesus. I reckon it’s work worth doing.

Every great once in a while, a writer fails to come through and I have to write the lessons myself. In fact, I just finished writing five lessons on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, which is found in Matthew 5-7. [Full Story »]