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Hanukkah celebration 2024: Light of the World, December 25 - January 2, 2025
Hanukkah, which is Hebrew for "dedication" is the Festival of Lights. It commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek...

Rose Buckles
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Dave Ramsey's EntreLeadership: So you want to buy a business...
Imagine waking up on a Monday morning one year from now. Are you still enthusiastic about this line of work? Your vocation needs to be...

Dave Ramsey
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Been Thinkin' About... Cedar gloom puppies
There have been traditional Christmases past, full of bright sun and icy snow and kicking the ice from boots, coming into a warm...

Joshua Heston
2 min read


An Ole Seagull's 2025 New Year's Resolution: Remember the Battle of Chosen Reservoir
Saying that the “war” would be over by Christmas and vastly underestimating what China would do, General Douglass McArthur...

Gary J. Groman
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Reflections: A generous eye
Recently, my Sunday Proverbs reading coincided with receiving information about the Loaves and Fishes meal program in Stone County,...

Cynthia J. Thomas
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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
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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
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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 ...
Rob Doherty
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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
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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
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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
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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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