Church News

By Nancy Kennedy, Guest columnist

Scattered throughout any community are tiny, struggling churches.

Sometimes they’re invisible. If you blink while driving past them you’ll miss them. Or they’re eyesores — run down, weather worn.

In my 20 years covering local religion for the newspaper, I’ve gotten to know the people at some of these little churches.

I’ve attended their services and could count the people in the pews with two hands and not need a third.

By Nancy Kennedy

Tachycardia is a dangerously rapid heartbeat, arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat and dead is no heartbeat at all — and I had all three recently.

That may be a slight exaggeration and a bit of melodrama, but the truth is I experienced severe panic recently.

I lost my camera.

And by “my camera” I mean the one the newspaper I work for gave me to use and not mine to keep.

By Larry Coleman

Faith Columnist

We should realize based on our definition of faith that true Christianity is not a religion. The creator didn’t initiate a religion when he breathed his life into the first man. That is why the “ian” at the end of the word Christian is so important to understand.

It means to be characterized by, in this case a person Christ.

If you call yourself a Christian you are telling others that you are not religious, but that you have a living relationship with a person.

Happy New Year! There is something special about the beginning of a new year and all the possibilities it contains.

Many will make resolutions for weight loss, better budgeting of money, opening their own business, going back to school, or finally cleaning out that one closet that plagues the entire house. However, of all the things on our proverbial list to accomplish, I pray a better relationship with Christ, takes priority.