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Last-Minute Christmas Gifts for the Foodie & TravelerColumns
CHRISTMAS FRUIT SALAD--- Old-fashioned fruit salad or ambrosia is the perfect last-minute “save” to round out the dessert table on Christmas Day. Christmas is almost here, so technically, your shopping needs to be...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “I will put enmity between...” (Genesis 3:15)Columns
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (Genesis 3:15) Someone was once asked to summarize the story of...
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Armchair Ponderings Christmas vs. HolidaysColumns Editorial
It will be Christmas Monday, so let’s drop all of this Happy Holiday’s stuff and say Merry Christmas! Next week I will say Happy New Year! When the secular Fourth of July comes around you don’t hear Happy Holiday....
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Armchair Ponderings The five stages of grief, fact, or fictionColumns Editorial
Several weeks have passed without a Ponderings contribution. One of my friends asked if it was because of the loss of my muse. My wife of sixty-six years and I frequently discussed my column, generally it was after the...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God Hath All Life...” (Isaiah 32:15)Columns
“Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.” (Isaiah 32:15) For the last twenty-four weeks, this article has focused...
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Fall Food Needs To Be Fast... And FunColumns
Using the first letter of the all-too-brief season, fall is filled with festivals, football, family time and fun activities in the span between six months of searing heat and the cold, rainy weather that accompanies...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Terrible with His Judgements...” (Hebrews 10:31)Columns
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31) Human nature very much swings back and forth as a pendulum, swinging from one extreme to another. In my early years, church sermons...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
Last Wednesday evening and Thursday morning will be remembered as a dark time for the town of Terry. I returned for my All Saints’ memorial service during which the Bishop of Mississippi spoke. That service was in...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
On Tuesday morning, news of the death of Nell Taylor Eley was made known. She was a Monticello native who lived in three different houses in Terry on Raymond Street, Cunningham Avenue, and Utica Street. She was a...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 7:9-11)Columns Editorial
“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more...
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Felder’s Edimental GardenColumns
Got into a convo the other day about sassafras trees, and how as kids we used to steep its root bark to make a root beer-like tea and crumble its leaves into gumbo. Which segued into other non-mainstream garden plants...
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Claim Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Meat (And Bones) NowColumns
TURKEY AND WILD RICE SOUP--- Turkey and wild rice soup is one of my favorite ways to use the leftover turkey bones and meat. With a side of homemade garlic bread (email me for the recipe), it’s the perfect comfort...
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Appetizers For Dinner? Why Not?Columns
PULLED PORK NACHOS--- Who wouldn’t want Pulled Pork Nachos for dinner? I can’t think of anyone, including myself! It’s the small things for me that trigger new ideas. Seeing “steak bites” on the appetizers’...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
I learned late in the week that former Terry Police Officer Samuel Cooper had passed away on Monday. He was a friend to all that knew him and certainly will be missed. Here is an obituary (not nearly long enough to...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Patient...” (Matthew 26:39)Columns
“And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.” (2 Peter 3:15) War strikes again. Over the weekend, news outlets broadcasted...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God Ordains...” (Matthew 26:39)Columns Editorial
“And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.’” (Matthew 26:39) Every decision...
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Let the Fall Comfort Food Commence!Columns
FALL COMFORT FOOD--- Nothing says “comfort food” like a big dish of steaming hot spaghetti and meatballs. It’s fall, a sign that we can begin dreaming of cozy evenings gathered around the table filled with hot...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
As was stated in last week’s column, here is the sample ballot for the 2 precincts in Terry. Sample ballot for Terry 1 (T1) and Terry 2 (T2) Vote for one candidate: GOVERNOR -Gwendolyn Gray (I) -Brandon Presley (D)...
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Felder’s Fish PondColumns
I just accidently killed the new fish in my favorite water garden, to my sad chagrin. Over the years I have created several water gardens, from mom’s huge one to my home-made birdbaths which I consider water features...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
The Town of Terry and The James Foster Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will present “Ringing the Bells Across America” to celebrate Constitution Week at Terry City Hall at 2:30 p. m. on Sunday,...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Years Ago...” (Psalm 78:4)Columns
“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.” (Psalm 78:4) 195 years ago, Jackson was a dream,...
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Must-Haves For Tailgating... Or Just Enjoying FallColumns
BOAT DIP--- At least a few variations of this delicious dip have been around for awhile. Even so, “Viral Boat Dip” is enjoying a revival right now, thanks in part to social media. Finally... fall is on the horizon!...
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Felder’s Colorful KaleColumns
Time to move on. Thin past dragging hoses, and plan, if not actually plant, for the next season. I’m starting to push through the chore of cleaning up the summer’s frustrations, and setting out spring bulbs topped...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Lamb’s book of life...” (Revelation 21:27)Columns Editorial
“But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” (Revelation 21:27) Within our theology, Christians have...
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