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Is It Better To Be Good Or Bad?

Posted on May 24, 2016 in Scott Carter | 0

I know that those of you who are not sports fans probably get a little tired of all the articles that Stan and I write that include or are based around sports analogies. And I understand that, so I try a lot

Youth Ministry Goals

Posted on May 24, 2016 in Sarah Bowles | 0

From the time that a student enters the youth group to the time a student graduates out, there are some things that they should know. These can be called the “basics.” The basics that the students should know are

April Fools

Posted on May 24, 2016 in Stan Martin | 0

I can hardly believe it’s time for opening day of baseball season. I’ve always thought that it was appropriate that baseball’s opening day is right around April Fool’s Day, because

Waiting to Bloom

Posted on May 24, 2016 in Scott Carter | 0

About four years ago I planted a camillia bush. I had never had one but I needed something to hide the cable/phone box in my front yard. And I wanted something that flowered. The first year

Gone For Good

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 in Stan Martin | 0

As I write this Duke and Carolina are about to square off at the Dean Dome for the first of their two annual regular season basketball slugfests. Leading up to the game a Duke student went undercover

The Fool Says In His Heart…

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 in Scott Carter | 0

Fool in heart

On the way down to Florida, I noticed a billboard that said simply,

“A fool says in his heart that there is no God.” Psalm 14:1.

When I first saw that I said,

Resisting Temptation

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 in Scott Carter | 0

Back in 2006 Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus

What Love Is

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 in Stan Martin | 0

One of the best things about having a wife who’s a Kindergarten teacher is that they do assignments where they try to explain things that are beyond their comprehension. I love their Thanksgiving dinner recipes

A Sacrificial Gift

Posted on Dec 7, 2015 in Stan Martin | 0

A Sacrificial Gift

What’s the most extravagant gift you’re giving for Christmas this year? Is there a gift you’re giving that requires a sacrifice on your part? There are a lot of things my son has asked for that the catalog he found them in promises are legal

Living In Their Skin

Posted on Dec 7, 2015 in Scott Carter | 0

Living In Their Skin

At this time of year we begin to naturally think of the birth of Christ. It is Christmas after all. Yes, we do get caught up in the pageantry

Planting & Watering

Posted on Oct 12, 2015 in Scott Carter | 0

Growing tomato plants

There is a simple passage in 2 Corinthians that we would all do well to remember. There Paul says, “The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.” (2 Corinthians 3:8)

In his book the The Secret Message of Jesus,

Glory Days

Posted on Oct 12, 2015 in Stan Martin | 0

I love it when my Mom cleans out the basement of her house. There’s always a treasure trove of items from my youth that gets discovered, having been boxed up—sometimes for decades. And during my vacation visit she unearthed another one:

The Elephant in the Room

Posted on Jul 30, 2015 in Scott Carter | 0

Elephant in the Room In 1814, Ivan Andreevich Krylov, poet and fabulist, wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man” which tells of a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny things, but fails to notice an elephant.

The Tides of Life

Posted on Jun 22, 2015 in Scott Carter | 0

ocean-tide Several years ago some friends of mine took me duck hunting down on the coast near Back Bay. Now up to that point

Three Little Words

Posted on Jun 22, 2015 in Stan Martin | 0

threelittlewords1985_a Would I have been able to say it? Would I have been able to mean it? That’s all I could think about when I read the three little words Nadine Collier said