A real sandy feat

If you like arts, crafts, and a nice walk on a beautiful day, Raleigh’s 35th annual “Artsplosure” festival was the place to be May 17-18. The street festival surrounding Moore Square offers a nice opportunity for area folk to peruse more than four...

How to End the Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline

Texas newspapers in March carried alarming articles about the volume of children at all grade levels suspended by administrators for “unacceptable” behaviors. The number of suspensions is indeed remarkable and depressing. Clearly we have behavior problems...

The Devil Made Me Do It

A sermon by Bob Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky. Matthew 4:1-11 March 9, 2014 Our attention this morning is drawn to the temptations of Jesus recorded in Matthew’s gospel. Matthew is not the only writer to tell us about this significant event in...

Some Churches Too Quick to Lay Down the Law

Have you noticed our tendency to try and control others with rules? We started with Ten Commandments. That led to Jewish scholars noting that the Torah actually contains 613 commandments, which can be divided into 365 “negative commandments” and 248...