Friend to Friend Fourteen exhausted, sweaty teenage boys plopped down on the bottom step of the gymnasium bleachers—my son being one of them. The assistant Junior Varsity basketball coach paced back and forth, lecturing them on the error of their ways. In the style of Sergeant Carter addressing Gomer Pyle, he yelled, “Who’s talking?” The […]

The story of Christmas is familiar. Many of us can recite verses and sing choruses that recap the holy day without so much as a second thought. It’s said that familiarity breeds contempt – so I wonder. I wonder and I search my heart. When I sit and search long enough to listen to God’s […]

As Bing Crosby crooned, “I’ll be home for Christmas,” on the radio, I scowled at the moving boxes cluttering my living room. Well, I won’t be! I thought with an ache in my chest. Our house had sold to buyers who were eager to settle in before the holidays. We faced weeks of living out of […]

Who in the world would wait until Christmas Eve to do their Christmas shopping? I find it hard to believe the statistics that show December 24th is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, so one season I decided to venture out to the stores and see for myself. I usually have my […]

Don’t Miss the Joy of Dirty Socks by Sharon Jaynes Have you ever had something happen in your life that was a wake-up call. I mean it really got you thinking about what in the world you are doing in life? I still remember the day I God stopped me in my tracks and reminded […]

Today’s Truth I praise You because You made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What You have done is wonderful. I know this very well. You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother’s body. When I was put together there, You saw my body as it was formed. All […]

  Friend to Friend I have a confession to make. When I was in high school, I never read the books we were supposed to have read in English class. I read the Cliffs Notes study guides and got by. But a decade later, I decided to go back and get that high school reading […]

Have you ever wished you could tear certain chapters out of your story? Or that you could erase the painful pages? If so, this post is for you. I’m writing over at Proverbs 31 Ministries today and wanted to share this with you too. Let’ me start with a game my son and I played […]

You can celebrate Faith, Family, and Freedom with Peace 107 just like Patrick does. Four yr old Patrick recites the Pledge of Allegiance every weekday at 7am with Peace 107.   6am – The National Anthem 7am – The Pledge of Allegiance  8am – The Lord’s Prayer 4pm – America the Beautiful 5pm – God […]

BCS Together believes in serving families in crisis from prevention to permanency. They come alongside families, in partnership with Child Protective Services (CPS), from the initial point of crisis during an investigation all the way through placement in a kinship or foster home.

THEIR MISSION: – Provide Nourishment for Frontline Workers – Support Local Independent Restaurants – Provide a Means for the Community to Connect

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