Carry Nation Speaks On Prohibition In Comanche
Today, I find myself thinking of Carry Nation, a woman forgotten by most and never known by most of those younger than 40. Today, Mrs. nation is branded a radical, and maybe she was. However, I have to...
View Article“To Save A Life” Might Do Just That- A Message Of Hope
I watch very few movies because I just don’t have the time to do so; however, if I were in charge of the world, I’d make To Save A Life required once-a-year viewing. Parents need to preview first to...
View ArticleWhen Your Child Has Cancer A Message Of Hope
The C Word Was Always In The Back Of Her Mind She was alone with a two year old, her husband a thousand miles away when she received the worst news of her life…and yet the doctor himself had told …...
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Lose Weight…A Message Of Hope
Weight….it’s a never ending problem, isn’t it? We all want something. We want to lose; we want to gain. We want to look better in our jeans or we want a skinnier waist. There’s not one of us who isn’t...
View ArticleFighting Carney Complex & Trusting God… A Message Of Hope
There is no way to miss the pain in his eyes these days and yet…those same eyes also carry a tremendous measure of faith that only God can give. I’ve known and loved Juan Martinez for over 20 years. He...
View ArticleDebilitating Joint Pain? A Message Of Hope
A few months ago, I wrote about having been stricken with the most debilitating pain that I have ever endured…a pain so bad that I could not even walk up a flight of stairs (If you have missed my...
View ArticleBeating Drug Addiction…A Message Of Hope
Alex Carter is 26 years old. He’s brilliant, funny, and “tall, dark, and handsome.” Alex Carter has also been clean for one year today. Of course, as you would imagine, it’s not been an easy road...
View ArticleWhen Chemo Takes Your Baby Girl’s Hair
I’m going to be completely honest with you up front and tell you that this is an article I really don’t want to write and yet, it needs to be written. It’s one of those true stories that touches me …...
View ArticleAaron Akin Is Truly A Message Of Hope
The Akin boys probably don’t know it, but they have always been very special to me. I watched them grow up, watched them play ball. I know their parents, taught their mom and her sisters, and I know...
View ArticleSaving Billie…A Message Of Hope
Poliomyelitis, called Polio by most of us, was a contagious disease that was not eradicated in this country until the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk, distribution beginning in 1955. In 1952...
View ArticleWhen Your Baby’s Born With A Birth Defect…A Message Of Hope
She’d Never Even Heard Of It… Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Amanda Stephenson Auvenshine, almost everyone in the town of Comanche knows her. Most also know she has a daughter named Daicee and that...
View ArticleI Remember Deacon Jones…A Message Of Hope
Ever wanted to just give up and walk away from it all? Ever think you just can’t Whatever? We’ve all been there, and we all know just how those times feel, don’t we? Years ago I heard Bobbie Caffey...
View ArticleWhen Your Shack’s On Fire…A Message Of Hope
The idea for the following was submitted by Dennis Marken. I’m afraid I have taken a lot of liberty with it! It seems that a man survived a shipwreck only to be washed up on a small, uninhabited...
View ArticleBeing A Police Officer In New York City
When I first met Wayne Meyenberg at one of our church services a couple of years ago the last thing that I thought when we first visited was that he must have been a New York City police officer. That...
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