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Compared to other prosperous democracies, the US is not doing so well in the area of public health. We can’t afford care; we can’t afford medicine. And Texas is not doing well compared to other states. Texas has the 6th highest ranked economy, but ranks 31st in public health (USNews.

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Wayne’s World

You’d think that John Wayne said the word ‘pilgrim’ a lot. He did. But only in one movie.In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the Duke said it 25 times. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) counted.

Where Are They Now? William McCormick

Dublin graduate William McCormick’sparents raised him to be honest and hardworking. “I just always think about things they said, and I try to live by the advice that they gave me,” he said.McCormick graduated from Dublin High School in 1994, and went on to work at Sikes Movie Land for eight months.

His Presence for Your Purpose

Exodus 33:22 I will put you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.I sat staring at the microphone in my radio studio. I had just closed the mic after a short chat about a Bible verse when I was unexpectedly overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of my task.

What Glory in Our Lord’s Transfiguration

Have you ever witnessed something that you thought was one thing but turned out to be something completely different? What about the transformation of the butterfly? It begins life as an ugly, yucky worm. Who wants to touch it, except for maybe a young boy who grabs it up for fishing bait?

Berry’s Picks

Comanche Extension Agent Michael BerryFire Ant ControlThis is a subject that perhaps I write about too often, but this is one pest we are constantly having to deal with. Following the amazing fall rains we have had, fire ants have gone wild.

What a trip

As we left Ashdown, Arkansas, in my mom’s 1971 Buick Electra 225 Limited, my mom turned to my dad and asked, “Jimmy, are you sure we have enough money?”He responded, “Well, Mary. If four hundred dollars isn’t enough to spend two weeks at Disney World, then we might as well stay home.”It was 1973.

Yesterdays gifts, tomorrows treasures

Sometimes the best gifts were the ones you had all along… because they’re still sitting in the box when you received them last Christmas.My family experienced this phenomenon a while back.

The Error of Saul

In this last installment of the series about the Gibeonites, we find a bit of a strange story in 2 Samuel 21. A famine had come over Israel. It was a time of little or no harvest. Food was beginning to be scarce as the famine went on, now in its third year. David went to the LORD about it.