As with life, all things change. Someone once said, the only thing certain in life is change. We had been the senior pastor of our first church for 4 yrs and at that time we were only the second longest pastor that this 50 yr old church had had.
To say that the last eighteen months have been challenging would be a drastic understatement. There has been the pandemic with deaths, sickness, quarantines, masking, social distancing, and other safety protocols resulting. Pandemic related job losses, shutdowns, closures, reduced production, delayed deliveries, etc. have led to economic issues and lifestyle adjustments. And the chaos and uncertainly got even worse with protests and rioting over contested elections and racial tensions. Yes, these are certainly “challenging” times we live in! And they remind us of some important truths. They’ve always been true, but recent (and current) events reaffirm them.
Junior wide receiver Johnny Martinez scored two touchdowns and racked up a team-high 143 all-purpose yards to power Pratt past Nickerson 54-18 in a 3A Central Kansas and district high school football game on Friday night at Zerger Field.
The 4-3 Kansas State Wildcats are coming off an 25-24 comeback win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders last Saturday. This Saturday K-State will host the TCU Horned Frogs at 2:30 in Bill Snyder Family Stadium for its annual Homecoming game. The game will be televised on ESPNU.
NICKERSON — Three years ago, the Hiatt family decided to start a new adventure by transforming a couple of acres of farmland into an industrial hemp field. Each year they learn, and each year they pivot. Sometimes a little; sometimes a lot.
The debt ceiling debate in Washington seems distant from average Kansans, but it affects your finances more than you think. The debt ceiling is the limit on the amount of money the federal government can borrow.
Growing up as kids in Oklahoma, my pals and I gloried in dumb jokes: “Why did the dimwit hit himself on the head with a hammer? Because it felt so good when he stopped.” But here in Kansas, we dimwits don’t stop. We keep on whacking our hospitals, our poor people and ourselves — all just to block Medicaid expansion while robbing ourselves of a chance to be decently Christian.
What’s going to happen to the Red Carpet Inn? The white concrete structure has been more of a white elephant than anything else for more than a decade. Its fate may soon be decided.
The three largest public universities in Kansas will require all of their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing President Joe Biden's mandate for federal contractors. Kansas State University was the first to announce the COVID-19 vaccine requirement as Provost Charles Taber addressed a virtual town hall for staff Friday morning.
In Psalm 40:1-2 we read “I Waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.” In this verse the Psalmist gives praise to God for saving him from a situation that he likens to being stuck in quicksand or the mire at the bottom of cistern--from a situation from which he could not have extricated himself.