FAITH COLUMN

Encouragement for difficult times

  • Rev. O. Richard Bowyer | Retired United Methodist Clergy

From time to time this past week a commercial announcing a weekly show entitled Manifest has appeared on television. Read more

FAITH COLUMN

Stay faithful to the Lord

  • D.D. Meighen | Interim Minister: First Presbyterian Church

I Samuel 2:18-20; 26: Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod. His mother, Hannah, used to make for him a little robe & take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer yearly sacrifice. Read more

Christmas, a season of indelible memories

  • By Elton Slusser | Citizen Journalist

No other period in our lives engraves so much on our memory as Christmas does. This season of family togetherness and goodwill faithfully and predictably arrives, and we cannot believe that another year has evolved. Read more

FAITH COLUMN

Impeachment, intent and incarnation

  • D.D. Meighen | Interim Minister: First Presbyterian Church

Luke 2: In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. Portions of Matthew, Chapter 2: In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. Then Herod secretly called for the wise men … Read more

MANNINGTON COLUMN

Christmas services this week

  • By Judy Carson | For the TImes West Virginian

Good Morning Mannington!! Welcome all who have or will be visiting for Christmas. Hope everyone has a safe trip. Are all plans made, cookies baked, presents wrapped, and a new 2020 calendar ready? Read more

FAITH COLUMN

Prepare the way for the Lord

  • By Rev. Rebecca Mihm | Fleming Memorial Presbyterian Church

Matthew 3:1-4 – In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, mak… Read more

Slusser Column

Land of the free – guaranteed

  • Elton Slusser

Not long ago during this same time of the year, I had a very memorable chance encounter. Being in the non-Grinch mood for giving, I decided to blow the budget and take my wife out for a dinner-date cooked by someone else. Read more

FAITH COLUMN

The untold story of Pearl Harbor

  • By D.D. Meighen | Interim Minister: First Presbyterian Church

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-9 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might l… Read more

How homelessness changed my mind in one night
FAITH COLUMN

How homelessness changed my mind in one night

  • By D.D. Meighen | Interim Minister: First Presbyterian Church

John 3:2-4 “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, and no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Read more

A season of gratitude

  • Elton Slusser

Thanksgiving 2019 has nearly arrived. Surely it hasn’t been a year since we last observed this blessed and most meaningful holiday. Once more, family members from far and near will make the emotional journey back home to celebrate together the season of gratitude and remembrance. Read more

This Week's Circulars

Obituaries

LAMBERT, David Jun 7, 1938 - Jan 16, 2020

David George Lambert of Centerville, Ohio passed away on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at his residence. He was born June 7, 1938, the son of the late George E. and Eleanor Rodgers Lambert. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Barbara Davis Lambert, his daughters, Laura and Heidi, and grands…