Musings

By Sean Dietrich I’m watching the Alabama-Missouri game. I’m eating boiled peanuts. It’s the first time I’ve seen college football since the pandemic began some 300 years ago. To say I’m happy is like saying the Pope is an okay guy. I’m ecstatic. I don’t want to get all mushy about Alabama...

By Pastor Dave Holland An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever...

By Sean Dietrich There is something about the way the sun falls upon the lustrous water of the Choctawhatchee Bay that lights my heart on fire. No. Wait. I apologize. That sentence you read in the above paragraph was ridiculous. Lustrous? How immature and overly dramatic. This is because I wrote...

By Pastor Dave Holland Jesus revolutionized my life in 1970, when I was age 16. The church youth group started a new Bible study on Friday nights as they were oblivious to the real world. Didn’t they realize that anybody who mattered went to high school football games every Friday...

By Myrna Conrad The world was created in and functions through order. We can look at any living organism and see the order that must take place for it to function properly. We can examine any social system and see how order or chaos determines the success or failure of...

By Sean Dietrich I was there by accident. It was night when I pulled onto the old beach road without even thinking. I guess my brain was on autopilot. This used to be the way I took home every night. Back when my family lived up the street in a little...

By David Saviola, Arborbrook Financial I think every wedding I have ever attended, whether in a church setting or not, quoted the Bible’s 1 Corinthians Chapter 13. You know the one: “Love is patient, love is kind” … et cetera et cetera. “The Love Chapter,” as some refer to it, is...

By David Saviola, Arborbrook There once was a wealthy landowner who went out at daybreak to hire all the laborers he could find to work in his vineyard. After agreeing to pay them the standard day’s wage, he put them to work. Then at nine o’clock, as he was passing...

By Sean Dietrich It’s late. And I wasn’t going to write this, but I have to. Not only for me, but for the good of our children, and our children’s children. No matter how hard it is to address. I’m talking, of course, about the highly controversial issue of homemade...

By Myrna Conrad There seems to be so much anger and hatred in our world right now and so little forgiveness and love. It’s not as if this struggle to forgive is a new issue for any of us. When someone hurts us or someone we love, our first and...