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  • COLUMN: Jesus -- The greatest Valentine

     The words “I love you”engraved on a red valentine can send our hearts racing with joy when received from someone special. Candy, flowers, cards, teddy bears - all send the message of love to those we cherish on Valentine’s Day.

    Recently, I came across a scrapbook of Valentine cards I had received as a small child. They had been special to me then and they were heartwarming to read many years later.

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  • PHOTO: Baby shower 'in Jesus name'

     The children at Friendship Baptist Church hosted a baby shower “In Jesus Name.” Church members brought wrapped gifts. The children hosted the event, decorating and setting up food for the guests. After the gifts were unwrapped they were delivered to SpringHaven, a local women’s shelter. Children are Kaleigh Graham, Patricia Keys, Hannah Boggs, Catherine Spalding, Jake Skaggs, Peyton Foster, and Christian Veirs. Not pictured: Tyler Foster.  

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  • Church Calendar - Feb. 6, 2013

     Annual gospel fest is Feb. 8

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  • TOUCHPOINTS: Do your feet race to do wrong?

     In Proverbs 6:16-19 we read about “six things the Lord hates – no, seven things he detests:”

    1. Haughty eyes, being arrogantly proud, overbearing and self-important.

    2. A lying tongue: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” You can actually kill someone with words. When you speak words of slander, gossip, false accusation, hatred, criticism, discouragement and contempt, you can actually kill someone. Such words over days and weeks, months and years can actually break someone’s spirit.

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  • COLUMN: As a man thinketh ...

     “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Our thoughts affect our behavior for good or evil. If a person dwells on negative thoughts that person will become negative and pessimistic. If we fill our minds with good thoughts, we will do good things.

    There is a relation between our thoughts and our behavior. What we think about, we do. If we fill our thought life with wholesome things, the result will be seen in every area of life.

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  • COLUMN: Jesus stepped in when a substitute was needed

     We are living in a day of substitutes. Many foods and other articles have been replaced by something else.

    We have substitutes for sugar, salt, certain metals, wood. 

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  • Steadfast Baptist Church opens doors at Civic Center

     What started as a small group of people seeking God’s guidance has grown into a solid church steadily building on its humble beginnings.

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  • Church Calendar - Jan. 23, 2013

     Gospel program to aid family with medical expenses

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  • TOUCHPOINTS: Rely on God when times get tough

     There are days in a person's life when it is very hard to be cheerful.

    Every day that we live, we encounter a multitude of changes ... some good, some not so good, some downright disheartening. 

    When we must endure life-changing personal losses that leave us feeling depressed, rejected and unloved, there is a place we can turn for comfort and assurance. We can turn to our heavenly father who is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

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  • COLUMN: See yourself through God's eyes

     God can take a nobody and make a somebody. Gideon in the Old Testament is a classic example of an ordinary person that God uses (Judges 6 and 7).

    Gideon went from a farm boy to a national hero and against incredible odds, saved the nation of Israel.

    Israel was at a low point spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally and economically. The Midianites were enemies of the Israelites and 135,000 of them came against Israel.

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