By Kathryn Kelley 50 years! Can you believe it! I can’t. I have had people ask me when I was going to retire and I always say when Jesus comes. I’ve met so many people over the years that I have formed friendships with. Some are good ‘telephone’ friends

As I accompanied my husband this morning on his way to a site, he and I had an interesting conversation about pre-arranging our funerals and plans for that fateful day. As we all know, all of us will have to leave this earth realm at some point, but we do

In the history of the Pentecostal church, there is a term that is used to refer to fasting as “turning down your plate”. Fasting is not practiced as much as it is needed in my opinion, nor is it done appropriately in correspondence with the scriptures. Ma

I love going out to eat with friends and family and one of the best places to go is a good ‘ole buffet. Walking in you see and smell the steaming smorgasbord of delectable delights to choose from. There is so much to select that you can hardly decide what

Random acts of kindness are a crash course in being more like Christ. You want to be more like Christ? Then I suggest that you sharpen your acts of kindness skills. For instance, if you are approached by a beggar or panhandler and you don’t have money to

When God speaks to your heart and gives you an assignment, don’t begin thinking of excuses not to obey. Remember obedience brings about blessing. People are always expecting God to bless them, but they forget that they must first obey Him. When Moses hear

When unexpected adversity visits us, it can be a devastating experience spiritually, financially and even physically. The operative word here is “visit”. To visit actually means an occasion when someone goes to a place to see and talk to someone f

Marriage is like a poker game. You start out with a pair. She shows a heart. He flashes a diamond. She gets a flush. And he ends up with a full house and a big pot!

One year ago God reached down in Hartsville, South Carolina and said it’s time to go home. July 4 to most of us is freedom for our country, but to the Coward family it means freedom from pain. That’s what our Heavenly Father did when he called Dr. Paul

Would you like to see Christian movies back in Hartsville? PureFlix has three new movies coming out this year. We can make a stand together and put Christian movies in Hartsville Cinema. Go to carmike.com or call 706-567-3400 and hit 0 for operator ask

A big thank you from Toys For Tots, a program supported by the Marine Corps League Julian D. Dusenbury Detachment 410 in this area. We would like to thank all the businesses, volunteers, and people who donated their time, money and new toys this year to

If you would like to get an idea of what another Clinton White House could look like read, “Dereliction of Duty” by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson USAF (retired). Buzz, as he is called, carried the nuclear football for Clinton so he was privy to lots of things