Quantcast
Channel: The Ellis County Press
Browsing all 24 articles
Browse latest View live

Pushed in the pool

Approaching the Holiday Inn, we could see that high tide was sending its waves to break upon the foundation of the resort’s pool area. Only

View Article



Out to Pastor: 'Tis the season to stuff myself like a turkey and get away...

Now that summer is out of the way and the holiday season has begun, I can throw out the kitchen window all of those diet

View Article

New wine

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are

View Article

Out to Pastor: It was a Charles Dickens kind of year

While many people are out on a shopping spree to liquidate any cash reserves they might have left, I am taking this time to do

View Article

The second time around

Today I am sharing with you testimony, concise version, that is critical toward our understanding of sin and our walk with God through Jesus Christ.

View Article


The Christmas candle

Max Lucado is the author of The Christmas Candle. The film version of his story is in theaters now. It is set in the late

View Article

New wine

When He and His disciples attended the wedding at Cana He was asked by His mother to provide more wine for they had run out.  Jesus

View Article

Out to Pastor: My Christmas cheer drama

I enjoy being cheerful and Christmas time is a special time to be cheerful and I try my best to live up to it. Occasionally,

View Article


Out to Pastor: If you like your snow, you can keep your snow. Please!

Memory is a very wonderful thing, at times. It seems the older I get the more I remember things that never happened. I do not

View Article


Out to Pastor: A grandfather's stand on the Father Christmas hullabaloo

During this time of the year, a certain controversy raises its ugly red-scarfed head. Year after year, this hullabaloo continues and nobody has taken the

View Article

The battle for control

How would you define control? According to a number of sources control defined is: to exercise authority or dominating influence over; to restrain or refrain

View Article

Jesus and religion

Some of you may be thinking, Wait a minute: you can’t hate religion and love Jesus. Jesus IS a religion. To which I’d answer yes

View Article

Behold I stand at the door and knock

“Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine

View Article


Out to Pastor: To judge or not to judge that is the dilemma

The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage does not allow any pets in our domicile. Something about cleaning up their mess and fleas and other things

View Article

Out to Pastor: Cold is as cold feels and I don’t like feeling cold

I was sitting on the back porch sipping an ice-cold tea with a splash of lemon when I received a text from a relative up

View Article


Words can relieve stress

The Bible says, “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones” (Proverbs 16:24). Mother Teresa had a saying,

View Article

Night of the living dead

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night (spiritual darkness) is coming when no one can work.

View Article


Out to Pastor: Okay, now I remember

Memory is a beautiful thing, that is, when it is working. I must confess there are many times in which my memory is on some

View Article

Out to Pastor: Everything old is getting older still

Originally written Jan. 8, 2011 A friend of mine has a saying, “I’m going to get as old as I possibly can get.” From what I

View Article

Many are convinced we're in the 'last days'

With all that’s going on in our nation, there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that we must have a great spiritual awakening. We

View Article
Browsing all 24 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images