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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Trailer lights
On occasion a law enforcement official stops me, and I promise I am going straight home to fix the trailer light problem. I even carry...

Larry Dablemont
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Been Thinkin'...The Sentinel Oaks promise
Our forest was still scarred by bulldozer tracks, now mostly overgrown. A crew had felled several of the old growth oaks on that 22 acres of

Joshua Heston
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What to do with our fears?
After I had finished my list and put it away, I remembered two more things that I worry about but had forgotten to record, so I rushed...

Laurie Lemke Thompson
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Reader's Corner: Meet Dale, the UniClyde
As an added bonus, the book contains a couple of “Ivan the Terrier” poems. Based on the Von Rosenbergs’ dog...

Cynthia J. Thomas
2 min read


Reflections: The election is over, but don't stop praying
And I pray for “we, the people,” to keep praying just as hard after November 5 as we did leading up to it.

Cynthia J. Thomas
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Yesterday's echoes: Is it 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays?'
How many people wish someone a "Happy New Year" by saying "Happy Holidays," particularly during the week after Christmas ...

Gary J. Groman
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Remember and keep believing
How does a believer still follow the Lord Jesus when it “seems” our prayers are not being heard...

Tiffany Gravett
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If you didn't vote, please keep your whining to yourself!
There’s nothing more infuriating to an Ole Seagull than hearing someone claim they don’t vote because it doesn’t make a difference.

Gary J. Groman
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Reader's Corner: Novel insight into tough issues
Following the story’s main character as she has a foot in both worlds—a pro-life pregnancy clinic and an abortion facility

Cynthia J. Thomas
2 min read


Reflections: A quiet and peaceable life
Wait, what? Pray for whom? Even if my non-preferred candidate won? And what’s that business about a quiet and peaceable life?

Cynthia J. Thomas
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: When a brother falls...
Many have interpreted this passage to insinuate that being “spiritual” (v. 1) means taking on the mantle of what I call the “sin police” ...

Tiffany Gravett
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Area Entertainment: A night of laughter and memories
“Hopeful Hilarity: A Stand-Up Comedy Show,” kicked off their movement to bring more stand-up comedy to the Branson area ...

Luanna Fullerton
4 min read


Been Thinkin' About...The picnic
Kindling fires smell different, all dried branches of elm and box elder. Neither are popular trees, especially box elder, as they scatter...

Joshua Heston
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Benefitting from ginger
Ginger has been used medicinally for more than 50 centuries and is considered a safe herb with no serious side effects when taken by...

Jody Johnson Godfrey
3 min read


Dave Says: When you hit rock bottom
Still, when you do stupid things, you’ve got to pay what I call “stupid tax.” I’m talking about the consequences of your actions.

Dave Ramsey
2 min read
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Irena Sendler: Truly an unsung hero [part 1]
Warsaw, Poland, had the largest population of Jews in Europe. In September of 1939 after swiftly conquering Poland and employing perverse...

Bob Ford
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Memories from the Homestead: A trip along the Oregon Trail
Excited to learn more, just outside of Kearney on I-80, we stopped by the historic Archway exhibit, a wonderful museum...

John Fullerton
3 min read


Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Make thousands with this example
So now the MDC has made another 10,000 from those tags issued to 400 ‘bear-hunters.’ Now they have pocketed $88,000 by flim-flamming 7,800..

Larry Dablemont
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Stock Market Insights: The stock market's winners and losers post-election
Because of the potential policy differences, there could likely be market “winners and losers” depending on who wins the presidential...

Dr. Richard Baker
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That is not MY President!
The New Testament book of First Peter was written to Christians during a time of great persecution. They were treated unfairly ...

Tim Kidwell
4 min read
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