Looper column: Let’s stop giving directions and get our bearings
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.***** In the summer of 2016, my wife and I were on a 70,000-acre lake in Quebec that we had never been to before. On the third or fourth morning we were...
View ArticleTinsley column: Liberty and justice for all
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****I don’t remember when I learned the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. I guess it was sometime before I learned to read or write, probably...
View ArticleOpal Gay Floyd
Mrs. Opal Floyd, 86, of Perry, FL, passed away at her home on June 9, 2020. Opal was born March 26, 1934 in Port St. Joe, Florida to Price Gay and Pauline Peters Gay. Floyd was of the Church of God...
View ArticleAlways look behind the looking glass
Oops!Last Saturday, the New York Times made a boo-boo. Not the misspelling of some weirdly-named Nigerian rebel kind of boo-boo. No, a BIG one!The Times reported that former President George W. Bush...
View ArticleCoping with life during COVID-19 pandemic: PTSD
If you or someone you know is having a hard time dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, know that you are not alone. Our world has turned upside down, so it is natural to feel uneasy. This leads to...
View ArticleYou are God's beloved child
When you blow it – I mean, when you really mess up big time –do you hide from God? Sometimes I do, too.What if, instead of feeling like a failure and slinking away in shame, we looked at ourselves the...
View ArticleCharles H. Cooper, Sr.
Daddy loosened his bow ropes and set sail for a distant shore, as he was looking forward to that great city with foundations whose architect and builder are God.Charles H. Cooper, Sr., 84 of...
View ArticleWindows of faith, future
The process of demolition of First Baptist Church of Port St. Joe took a significant step forward this week as workers began removing the stained glass windows. The church will build on a new site off...
View ArticleKnow that every day is Father's Day
He walked with Jesus before Jesus was born.And then the time came when this man slid one finger and then another into one tiny hand and then another, lifting his one-year-old son to stand on wobbly...
View ArticleStandring column: Protests against racism: Involvement grows
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****Jesus challenged the power structure and revealed the hypocrisy of religious authorities. He championed the powerless, always in a posture of...
View ArticleAsk Pastor Adrienne column: The national rage of racism
Dear Pastor,What does destruction, looting and “occupying” have to do with racial problems? It’s terrible to see such evil.A: Yes it is. Just as there are always bad apples who spoil the bushel, demon...
View ArticleLooper column: Finding peace in pandemic and protest
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.***** In 1936, the novelist and political activist Ethel Mannin asked Nobel Prize-winning poet W. B. Yeats to join her in petitioning the German...
View ArticleTinsley column: What are you worried about?
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****The world gives us plenty to worry about. Many worry about COVID-19. Following efforts to reopen, more than half of the states report increased...
View ArticleLinda D. Fournier
Linda "Linda Mac" D. Fournier, 72, of Florida passed away on June 13, 2020 in Lyndonville, VT. She was born on April 5, 1948 in Derby, VT to Lawrence and Pauline Macleod.Linda loved all animals,...
View ArticleWhen you’re losing steam
There’s something different about you. You can sense it. Before when you faced obstacles, you’d give up. Now you stay and see the project or trial through – even though it feels as if you’ve been...
View ArticleBilly Joe Sweazy
Billy Joe Sweazy, 78, of Port St. Joe, FL passed away Friday, June 19, 2020 at Cross Shores Care Center following an extended illness.He was preceded in death by his parents, Roland and Helen Sweazy;...
View ArticlePastor Appreciation at Philadelphia Baptist
With great pride, Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church of Port St. Joe will be honoring its Pastor, the Elder Chester F. Davis and Lady Freddie Mae Davis, for five years of dedicated service to the...
View ArticleCharles William “Billy” Jordan
August 29, 1936 – June 17, 2020Private graveside funeral services for Charles William "Billy" Jordan, 83, of Cairo, GA, will be in Long Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Cairo, GA. Rev. Chris Allen will...
View ArticleAsk Pastor Adrienne column: How is your spiritual vision?
Dear Pastor,Some people claim to see the Holy Spirit. You’ve claimed this, too. How can that be?A: Over the years there have been many comments about my statements regarding the Holy Ghost. I never...
View ArticleLooper column: It is time for a new creation
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.***** The Bible claims that there is a fundamental reality to people that is not immediately apparent. The truest thing about any person is not something...
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