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Outside the Walls: Potluck — How Will We Be Known?

I work out with a group of middle-aged men who are reliving their glory days. Whenever a new member joins us, we give them a nickname to help us remember something about them. When they gave me my nickname,... Continue Reading »

Legislative Update: House Family Caucus Sets Goals

Speed is one of the most interesting characteristics of politics. Political fortunes can change at the drop of a hat, moving either negatively or positively, based on the perspective of the observer. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Howard Rosenberg lamented the... Continue Reading »

Comic Belief: What’s The Point?

An article in Psychology Today described a man who committed three hours a day for 10 years to finding something wrong with everything. He then either wrote or talked to someone to complain about what was wrong. He did... Continue Reading »

Wholly Healthy: EMT — A Ministry Role

Without a doubt, one of the most under-appreciated groups of healthcare workers in our country are emergency medical technicians. These are the dedicated men and women who respond to illness and injury outside of the hospital setting. There are... Continue Reading »

President’s Perspective: Weakness-Based Ministry

I don’t know what it is about October, but for some reason, most of my spiritual and ministry milestones happened in October. It’s the month I got saved, the month God called me to the ministry, and the month... Continue Reading »

Wholly Healthy: COVID Prayers

I write this month to call my readers to action. I sat in our church service on Sunday at LifePoint Church in Seneca, as Pastor Blake Pitts urged us to a deeper life of desperate prayer. I realized how... Continue Reading »

Outside the Walls: Answering the ‘All Call’

It started out as a normal day. Genelle sat down at her desk and began to get to work, when the unimaginable happened. A plane, hijacked by terrorists, flew into the World Trade Center where she worked on the... Continue Reading »

Legislative Update: Supreme Court actions in Washington and Columbia

In the world of geology, tectonic shifts are major geological events that happen outside of our view but often bring about momentous change to the physical landscape. In the world of politics, metaphoric tectonic shifts are rare, but there... Continue Reading »

Comic Belief: Random Pounding

We all come from the Adams family. Our family inheritance is our “earth suit” with its selfish nature. We are simply vessels of clay. As it ages, clay cracks, crumbles and disintegrates. We have also inherited a world that... Continue Reading »

Editor’s Word: Appreciate Your Pastor

Sept. 11 marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on our native soil, resulting in approximately 3,000 deaths and another 6,000 injured. When that tragedy sunk in, we talked about the day the world stopped or forever changed.... Continue Reading »

Outside the Walls: A God Who Sends

As I looked through misty eyes in the rearview mirror, a flood of emotions and memories filled my head as my wife and I dropped off our oldest son, Caden, at college. It seems like just yesterday there were... Continue Reading »

Legislative Update: Open Carry, REACH Act approved

Don’t be surprised if you walk into your neighborhood drug store or supermarket and see people walking around with their firearms strapped openly to their sides. On Aug. 15, South Carolina joined 13 other states that allow the licensed... Continue Reading »