by Norman Wood Recently, my wife and I were privileged to attend the home-going celebration of a saint of God. Over the years I have supplied the pulpit occasionally at the Bible Methodist Church in Cordele, Georgia. Whenever I did, I could count on there being a beaming white-haired sister sitting about three rows from the front on the left-hand side. Her radiant countenance and ready smile would just pull the “preaching” right out of you. This past January she suffered a stroke which...

by Curtis Going Preposition: a word that indicates the location or relation of one person or thing to another person or thing   Consider the following scenario. You are standing beneath a large oak tree in your back yard when suddenly someone yells, “Look out for that rattlesnake!” “Where?!” “On that branch above your head!” How would you know where to look, or, more importantly, how would you know where to run without prepositions? Prepositions communicate essential information to us...

by Paul Pierpoint A number of years ago, a boy came running home to his house after a Sunday morning service and cried to his mother. “Mommy, Mommy, I’ve got a part in the Christmas play.” His mother replied, “What part do you have, Tom?” “I’m one of the three wise guys!” This little bit of humor brings back some memories of my first church and my first experience in preparing a Christmas program. We had some boys who came only to Sunday School. They were not a part of the church. I wanted to...