By Marianne Wood Maitland: What will you do now? Miss Madrigal: Continue to explore the astonishment of living. Sometimes, a bit of a line in a movie–especially one for which you had low expectations–grabs you surprisingly. It inspires you to be a better person or moves you because it connects with a sore place in your heart. I’ll bet that’s
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By Loretta Fulton If all goes as planned, United Methodists in the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, which includes Abilene, will become part of a new unified conference that will reflect changes in membership following the departure of many conservative congregations for the new Global Methodist Church. The majority of former United Methodist Churches in Northwest Texas have left for the
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Links to previous stories First Baptist Church Pastor Resignshttps://spiritofabilene.com/2024/04/07/first-baptist-church-pastor-resigns/FBC Moving Forward After Pastor Resignationhttps://spiritofabilene.com/2024/04/15/fbc-moving-forward-after-pastor-resignationFBC Welcomes New Pastorhttps://spiritofabilene.com/2023/01/26/fbc-welcomes-new-pastorFirst Baptist Names New Pastorhttps://spiritofabilene.com/2022/12/19/first-baptist-names-new-pastor By Loretta Fulton The congregation at First Baptist Church will vote Sunday, July 7, on whether to accept a proposal from the church’s personnel committee to ask Matt Cook to be the interim senior pastor. A town hall discussion
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TEXAS NORMAL SINGING SCHOOLWhen: July 21-26Where: Abilene Christian University Biblical Studies BuildingRegistration deadline: July 7. Click here to registerMore Information: http://www.singingschool.org WORSHIP LEADER CONFERENCEWhen: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. July 20Where: Abilene Christian University, Room 114 Biblical Studies BuildingLeader: Randy GillRegistration: Click here to registerMore Information: http://www.singingschool.org/programs/worship-leader-conference By Loretta FultonDeadline to register for the upcoming Texas Normal Singing School and Worship Leader
Read moreBy Danny Minton I recently wrote an article entitled “The Casualties of War” about our greatest war against Satan and how we should arm ourselves in the fight against the evil that he presents to the world around us. We are promised to win this war if we look to Jesus to lead us in the battles we face. However,
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By Jim Nichols The first of this year’s version of the Presidential Debates is now over. Many of us wrestled with whether we wanted to watch. Did we not know what each candidate would say? Should we even bother to spend our time on this? What we got was two candidates of whom neither seemed to be a preferable choice.
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By Nancy Patrick Those of you who know me personally know that for many years I have experienced various problems with my muscular-skeletal health. It actually started twenty-five years ago when I developed a painful condition called De Quervain’s tenosynovitis requiring surgery in Lubbock. Then I realized I had carpel tunnel syndrome in both hands. On top of that, my
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By Jim Nichols “It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was blustery, and the clouds hung low. One had the impression that this was not a good night to be lost.” I have always wanted to begin writing a piece in that way, and now I can say I did. It certainly was a dark and stormy night,
Read moreBy Danny Minton In the story “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, a conversation occurs between Alice and “The Cheshire Cat.” “Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.Alice: I don’t much care where.The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much
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