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Angels Among Us by Lisa Burkhardt Worley, D.Min.
Last night, at church, we had the opportunity to watch the first episode of Season Six of The Chosen. It was incredible, but I was perplexed early on when I saw people with gold skin running at hyper-speed and scaling walls. Who were they? I didn’t put it together until I saw them surrounding the…
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Want to Live Longer? Here is One Easy Habit. By Lane Jordan Burday
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones (Proverbs 17:22). (I saw this on a news feed and felt it was so important that I wanted to share it with you. Ashley Fike wrote it, and it was posted on the New York Post on August 29, 2026.) Did…
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A Word about Patriotism and Faith by Lisa Burkhardt Worley, D.Min.
Yesterday, we remembered the events of September 11, 2001, twenty-five years later. I still vividly remember what happened because I was the spokeswoman for the airport in San Antonio, Texas. On 9/11, I was preparing for the day when someone from the airport staff raced into my office, frantically yelling, “Turn on your TV! Turn…
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All Nations Will Hear It by Lane Jordan Burday
And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14). Since I am in Christian ministry, I receive a good bit of information from many ministries, and lately many of them have been talking about the…
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Do You Miss the Good ‘Ol Days? By Lisa Burkhardt Worley, D.Min.
We are spending Labor Day Weekend with our oldest son, daughter-in-law, and grandson in my hometown of San Antonio. The San Antonio days in the 80s and 90s were exciting during my sportscasting days at the local CBS affiliate, KENS-TV. I was even recognized this weekend by a salesperson, almost 30 years after I retired…
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Better Get to Living by Onyx Conklin
“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.” That line was written by the (can I even type these words?) the late great Dolly Parton. If somehow you ended up sleeping through this month, let me let you in on a sad truth—Dolly has departed earth and gone to Heaven. Y’all (that’s the word…


















