Editorials, Stories & Prose

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4 hours ago

Editorials, Stories & Prose

Pants-on-fire Nation by Sal Moriarty

A lie took two parties – the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Jodi Picoult If you look around the...

What Is It About Football?

by Sal Moriarity

sharpcindy56

5 days ago

Editorials, Stories & Prose

What Is It About Football? by Sal Moriarity

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. Mike Ditka Success isn't owned, it's leased. And rent is due every day....

sharpcindy56

Aug 29

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Put Up, or Shut Up by Sal Moriarty

A real Christian is one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. Billy Graham Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward...

You Just Can't Yelp Some People by Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Aug 26

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You Just Can't Yelp Some People by Sal Moriarty

“ Drinks...just OK. Someone ordered a New York sour and was given a whiskey sour instead...Food – edible. Bread was not warm/crispy...the...

sharpcindy56

Aug 20

Editorials, Stories & Prose

Legacies by Sal Moriarty

Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Someone is sitting in the shade today...

sharpcindy56

Aug 17

Editorials, Stories & Prose

The Big Announcement from Sal Moriarty

In the interest of full disclosure, if you are the type of person who, given the chance, would enthusiastically attend a political rally...

sharpcindy56

Aug 7

Editorials, Stories & Prose

Is God Dead? Where to Begin?

Where to begin? Two weeks ago, we made the comment that for the Christian, everything needs to have warrant, or approval from Scripture....

sharpcindy56

Aug 3

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Show Me the Money by Sal Moriarty

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it. George Carlin I did something this weekend I...

sharpcindy56

Jul 30

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Ruminations Compiled by Sal Moriarty

look! she is dead no cover can cover her look her hands are dead just as her face is dead all of her is dead where is the soul? she...

Is God Dead?: Philosophy According to Paul

sharpcindy56

Jul 29

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Is God Dead?: Philosophy According to Paul

It is a nonnegotiable truth that Christians dearly hold the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, sufficient, and final authority in all...

Musings Among the
Mosquitoes (and Flies,
and Gnats, and...)

by Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Jul 29

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Musings Among the Mosquitoes (and Flies, and Gnats, and...) by Sal Moriarty

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels Go round and round I really love to watch them roll Watching The Wheels / John Lennon A friend...

sharpcindy56

Jul 23

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Is God Dead? Nature in Defense of God

It is the Christian understanding that “long ago, at many times and in many ways,” God spoke to His people through the prophets (Heb 1:1...

sharpcindy56

Jul 20

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Is God Dead? Michael and Common Ground

With the launch of this column last week, we officially set sail on a grand and far-reaching journey that will eventually take us from...

Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Jul 19

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Sal Moriarty

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. Thomas...

sharpcindy56

Jul 16

Editorials, Stories & Prose

Is God Dead?

On Good Friday 1966, Time issued their magazine with the cover emblazoned with just three words: Is God Dead? What followed was a...

sharpcindy56

Jul 10

Editorials, Stories & Prose

For The Record by Sal Moriarty

Note: the thoughts put down here are about records, which are different than songs. The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall...

By the Rivers of My Memory by Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Jul 5

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By the Rivers of My Memory by Sal Moriarty

The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negative of forgetting. Remembering is a form of forgetting. Milan...

Hello Darkness, My Old Friendby Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Jul 4

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Hello Darkness, My Old Friendby Sal Moriarty

Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly...

The Kingmakers

(based on a true story)

by Sal Moriarty

sharpcindy56

Jun 17

Editorials, Stories & Prose

The Kingmakers (based on a true story) by Sal Moriarty

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as...

sharpcindy56

Jun 10

Editorials, Stories & Prose

Why I Hate Dogs By Unknown

Because they're just so stupid. I know some can fetch and speak and stand and square dance, but where it matters most, few creatures are...

Obituaries

Annie WilliamsApril 13, 1926 - August 24, 2024

Annie Williams, age 98, of Hemphill, Texas, passed away peacefully on August 24, 2024, at Legacy Nursing Home. She was born on April 13,...

Joyce Marilyn Ehrle Nov. 20, 1946 - Aug. 26, 2024

A Celebration of Joyce Marilyn Ehrle’s Life, age 77, of Jasper, Texas, will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 1, 2024 at Erin Missionary...

Tommy Joe Bevil November 3, 1943-August 27, 2024

Tommy Joe Bevil’s Life, age 80, of Jasper, Texas, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont,...

Katie Irene Long June 7, 1977 - August 23, 2024

Katie Shaw Long , age 47, of Jasper, Texas passed away on Friday, August 23, 2024 at CHRISTIS Jasper Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Texas....

Alvin Cade Prewitt Dec. 5, 1942 - Aug. 25, 2024

Alvin Cade Prewitt, 81 of Jasper Texas passed away peacefully on August 25, 2024 at Rayburn Healthcare and Rehab. Alvin was born in...

Alice Marie Wiggins Sept. 4, 1943 - Aug. 26, 2024

Alice Marie Wiggins, 80 of Vidor, previously of Kirbyville passed away Monday, August 26, 2024 at Oak Wood Manor. A visitation will be...

Mary Melissa "Missy" Smith July 13, 1968 - Aug. 25, 2024

Mary Melissa "Missy" Smith, 56 of Kirbyville passed away Sunday, August 25, 2024 at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston. Funeral service will...

Ben Cochran Jan. 3, 1936 - Aug. 23, 2024

David Benjamin "Ben" Cochran, 88 of Kirbyville passed away Friday, August 23, 2024 at Avalon Place in Kirbyville. Memorial service will...

Clayton Randall Hardy Feb. 15, 1942 - Aug. 21, 2024

U.S. Veteran Clayton Randall “Randy” Hardy, age 82, passed away on August 21, 2024, in Jasper, Texas. Clayton was born on February...

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