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  • Faithful Words

     

    God give us Christian homes

     

    “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands . . . . Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church . . .” (See Ephesians 5:21-33, RSV).

     

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  • On Higher Ground

    The secret things really do belong to the Lord

     

    “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29).

    Halloween is nearly here. I never have liked the emphasis of this holiday on the evil and the demonic, and I hope that parents will encourage their children not to dwell on those elements.

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  • Spiritually Speaking

    Continue on lethargy or pray for zeal

     

    Are we seeing lethargy moving over our land; a lack of interest or concern about some very important things? Are we lazy or indifferent, almost like being in a coma, slumbering and sleeping concerning some very critical events?

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  • Working Words

    Every language on the planet today, but especially those spoken in the modern world, has a term to describe one of the most frightful conditions known to modern man. In the United States, we simply apply a negative prefix to describe it: “un-employment.” In Great Britain, out-of-work people are compared to superfluous things, like a collection of old shoes.  They are, in “Oxford English,” called “redundant.”

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  • Was the public given adequate notice?

    Last Thursday evening the LaFollette Press was notified the Campbell County Board of Education was planning a special called meeting. Specifically, Jennifer Caldwell, who covers the board for our readers, received a telephone call on her personal cell phone 90 minutes before the start of the meeting.
    We certainly appreciate the gesture board chairman Mike Orick made in making us aware of the “emergency meeting.”

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  • Faithful Words

    The Spirit-filled church

     

    “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit…” (See Ephesians 5:18, RSV).

    The Apostle Paul was not afraid of the Holy Spirit!

    He spoke and wrote of being “sealed” with the Spirit and receiving the “earnest” of the Spirit.

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  • From a Mother's Heart

    Prayer is having an intimate relationship with God

     

    Prayer is one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith.

    Its simplest definition is communication with God. Not just a one way conversation but learning to listen as God wants to speak to us.

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  • On Higher Ground

    Only the Lord knows what lies ahead for us

     

    I knew our visitor was a live wire when he asked me for the church roster so he could call members on Saturday night to encourage them to attend church the next morning. 

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  • What our students at Valley View need

       Situated in Sevierville is a Christian home for children called Wears Valley Ranch. Affiliated with this ranch is a school called St. Andrews, the school provides an accredited tutorial education for residential youth from the ranch. The St. Andrews school has an underlying philosophy of providing all its students with straight A’s. We here at Valley View Elementary attempt to mimic this philosophy as closely as possible.

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  • Selection process should not be taken lightly

     Dr. Michael Martin is gone.

    I am sure as this word made its way around the county’s campuses on Friday, collective cries of joy were heard.

    Many questions have begun to surface about his credibility and the credibility of those he surrounded himself with. There is no doubt that Martin  left under a cloud of suspicion.

    That being said, it can’t be forgotten that his leadership took Campbell County Schools off the state’s targeted take over list.

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