Musings

By David Saviola, Arborbrook Financial I can still remember the looks on people’s faces like it was yesterday. If they said anything to us at all, it was usually “uh, no thanks” with a perplexed look. Most folks just looked at us as if we were crazy and kept walking,...

By Sean Dietrich My wife is putting up the Christmas tree and we haven’t even rounded the corner toward Thanksgiving yet. But then, this holiday season can’t arrive quickly enough for us. My wife is ready to get this show on the road. After a long year of sheltering in place,...

By Pastor Dave Holland Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand… On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone— while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? —Job 38:4-7 (NIV) In the beginning of time there was a Singer. He sang a...

By Myrna Conrad Christmas is one of my favorite holidays. During this time, we receive cards and hear songs about “peace on earth good will toward man.” In fact, when the angels heralded the birth of Jesus they said, “And this will be a sign for you: You will find...

By Myrna Conrad None of us want to believe something that is false. We certainly don’t want to be manipulated by false rhetoric, advertisements, reporting or information. We are all constantly processing the information we receive to determine whether to believe it or not. The more our world has advanced...

By Dave Holland Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. So, they all ate... Luke 9:16-17 Potatoes are worth about a dollar in my hands, but they...

By Dave Saviola, Arborbrook Financial I recently came across a great message from Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Ga., on YouTube from a few years back. Andy was talking around Thanksgiving and he said, “This week is the hinge point in the rhythm of...

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...