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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: “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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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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McComb’s Will Price Taught Hollywood How to Speak Southern (then Married Maureen O’Hara at Chatawa)Editorial Headline
Will Price, we no longer need your services. Price was a native of McComb who taught Hollywood actors and actresses how to speak southern as needed for their films, including “Gone With the Wind.” He must’ve had...
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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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Does Mississippi Have the Deadliest Roads in America?Editorial Headline
How many more national surveys and ratings can Mississippi take that show us to be outright rapscallions, rogues, scamps and scoundrels? Not to mention wretches, meanies, caitiffs, devils and knaves? All of those words...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “The Lords Table...” (Matthew 26:29)Columns Editorial
“I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” (Matthew 26:29) On the night when Jesus was betrayed, He prepared a meal. This meal...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Worship...” (Hebrews 10:24-25)Columns Editorial
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”...
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Felder’s Summer GardeningColumns Editorial
When it comes to plowing through adverse gardening conditions, of which Mississippi has its share, it’s never too late to try, try again. I have some easy tips for getting more out of right now, without hurting...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Objections to the Church...” (Acts 2:47)Columns Editorial
“And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:47) Summer time in Mississippi - heat, humidity, and VBS. Over the course of the summer, would you join me as we slow down and...
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Armchair Ponderings Remembrance poppiesColumns Editorial
This week I procrastinated a bit too long for my weekly column. Then yesterday was trumped (no pun intended) by a three hour sitting in a medical lab followed by an almost two hour waiting room session in the...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Love...” (I John 4:8)Columns Editorial
“God is love.” (1 John 4:8) One of the late classics would sing, “What is love?” We ought not to assume to know the answer. Prior generations defined love as a feeling; current generations define love as...
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Armchair Ponderings The migrant conundrumColumns Editorial
Title 42 ended on May 11, 2023. Dire consequences were anticipated with the unrestricted influx of humans looking for a better life for their families. I know why people are paying exorbitant prices to be either dumped...
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Armchair Ponderings Middle of the night ponderingsColumns Editorial
Pondering #1 As I write this on Wednesday my uppermost wondering is due to my Cardiologists appointment tomorrow. Will we have scheduled a surgery date for my heart? Pondering #2 Should I rethink my belief in the Second...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Almighty...” (Psalm 145:3)Columns Editorial
“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable.” (Psalm 145:3) Many of us confess the Apostles’ Creed each Sunday, and the first line pulsates with both power and comfort. “I...
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No Laughing on SundayEditorial Headline
My opinion on laughter is that we need more of it. Lots more good old healthy, ‘throw back your head and hee-haw’ laughter. And I suspect that on the seventh day when God had created the world He looked around and...
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Armchair Ponderings An Uncertain FutureColumns Editorial
Eighty years ago, last month, my father pencil wrote a farewell letter to my mother. It had in it,” tomorrow we face an uncertain future.” He was loaded onto a train with 997 men, women and children to end up in...
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Armchair Ponderings Road trash is everyone’s problemColumns Editorial
This past Saturday’s Enterprise Journal opinion page, which I read on a daily basis, featured a column by Patsy R. Brumfield concerning a tremendous litter problem in McComb. I completely agree with portions of that...
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Spring Is the Best Time to Explore Mississippi’s TreasuresColumns Editorial
Spring and for some, a weeklong break from school, are on the horizon. Instead of jumping ship to other states, why not stay in Mississippi, a state filled with interesting places to explore and enjoy? Here are a few of...
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Armchair Ponderings Hospice versus chemotherapyColumns Editorial
As a disclaimer, I have no formal medical training but I have 86 years of observing life around me. I am not reporting my own opinion but that of others that either have suffered or are presently suffering for what is...
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Armchair Ponderings Public speaking, a lost art!Columns Editorial
I never cease to be amazed by the lack of preparedness of public speakers in today’s times. Starting with the president of the United States reading his speeches; whether they are written for him by a room-full of...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 7:12)Columns Editorial
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12) “The Golden Rule” - how many of us have heard this rule echoed into our ears after some...
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Christmas Gifts, the SequelColumns Editorial
Before you call me hypocritical for my next statement, yes, it’s true: I advocated buying Marie Callender’s pies for Thanksgiving if baking was not in your wheelhouse or time frame. With that disclaimer out of the...
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Armchair Ponderings The spirit of Christmas in 1882Columns Editorial
First printed as an award-winning Arm-chair Ponderings in the Magnolia Gazette on 12/16/98. There he was again peering through the shop window. The young fisherman walked home daily at dusk after a hard day’s fishing...
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