by Barrett Owen | Jan 6, 2020 | Opinion
Magi from the East travel, kneel, worship and present three gifts to baby Jesus: gold, the gift of kings; frankincense, the gift of divinity; and myrrh, the spice for burial. This familiar narrative, found in Matthew 2, is the focal text for Epiphany (Jan. 6), which...
by Richard Wilson | Jan 3, 2019 | Opinion
The month of Advent anticipations and the 12 days of Christmas celebrations have come and gone. The Advent wreath is in storage and the Christmas tree has been recycled. Now comes the important and hard work of making our celebrations meaningful. If what we have been...
by Mike Massar | Dec 23, 2016 | Opinion
It’s funny that they have come to be known as the wise men. In the biblical accounts, they were referred to as “magi,” and for the Jewish audience of the first century this was not, by any stretch of the imagination, to be considered as...
by Randy Hyde | Jan 9, 2014 | General
A sermon by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ar. December 29, 2013 Isaiah 63:7-9; Matthew 2:13-23 If you’ve ever done much traveling, you know it can be fraught with all kinds of difficulties. Just recently, one of our church members...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 3, 2014 | Opinion
No matter how bright or dark this past year has been, a new year brings the light of a wide-open future. This is a time of year when we all sense that we have a clean slate – a feeling expressed in our resolutions to do or to be something different, something...
