Tag: Branson

• Fighting Words

  

  Satan tries very hard to cause us to believe false truths. As we begin to believe those false truths and have doubts in our hearts and minds, we begin to turn ever so slightly from Jesus. Sometimes, I believe the lies. words + photographs JAYLA PENICK Some days, I believe I must be happy and…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, September 2022, Storytellers

  1 Peter 5:7, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, Accountability, Anxiety, Bible, Branson, Christian, David Penick, Do not give in to false truths and doubts, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Fear, For King & Country, God encourages my heart, God gives me strength, God has chosen me, Holy Spirit, Jayla Penick, Jesus, Jesus' gift of Salvation, lies, Luke 12:7, Missouri, Preschool Teacher, Psalm 37:23, RidgeKids Preschool, Springfield, Springfield Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals Baseball

• Repurposed

  

  Isaiah 55:11 promises God’s Word does not go out without a purposeful return in all He means to accomplish. I have witnessed this spiritual principle many times. All around, we have opportunities in how we carry His Word and how we listen to it ourselves. words + photographs MELISSA SWEARENGIN I once heard a funny…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Faith, September 2022

  2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Author, Bethel Worship, Bethel worship songs, Bible Study Fellowship, Blessed are the Feet, Branson, Clay Pot, Dante Bowe, Dante Bowe songs, Dog, Gideon, Gideon bible, Gideon meaning, God, Hannah McClure, Hannah McClure songs, Isaiah 55:11, Judges 6, Letters of Hope, listen to god, Lord, Missouri, Scripture, Springfield, Voices in the Valley, Weathered, who to listen to

• Good Times August + Local Food + Drug Disposal

  

  Good Times August RepublicBluegrass & BBQAug. 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m., All agesCommunity CenterAdmission is a donation of unscented baby wipes. Cost for food is extra.More information: 417.732.5993  Enjoy No Reservations food truck; silent auction with items from local businesses; and bluegrass music from award-winning Lonesome Road and Chigger Creek. Benefits Republic Pregnancy Resource Center.  MindenminesGuided Bison…

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  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, From the Editor

  Antique motorcycle, August, Baker Creek, Baker Creek August Festival, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Bee, Beehive, Beehive Creek, Best Actor, Big Meats, bluegrass, Branson, Buy Local, Chigger Creek, clubs, collins, Collins Pie Festival, concerts, Crane, dancing, disposal sites, dispose, Eat Local, events, Fassnight Creek, Fassnight Creek Farm, Finley Farms, food truck, Forrest Gump, freeze dried, Garden, Gillioz Theatre, gourds, Green County, greenhouse, Guided Bison Saunter, Hillside Herd, Kansas City, Kenny's Funland Carnival, Liverpool Legends, Local Beef, Lonesome Road, Mansfield, Matinee, midweek, Miller, Miller Fall Festival, Missouri, Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove City Square, Mountain Grove Heritage Festival, Mountain Grove Municipal Airport, Opioids, pie, Prairie State PArk, pumpkins, Raw milk, Republic, Republic Community Center, Republic Pregnancy Resource Center, silent action, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Spur Creek Farm, St. Louis, Sycamore, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Creek Barn Dance, Tom Hanks, unscented baby wipes

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  A short story written by Julie Johnson based on the March #WordPrompt #Bridge by WordPress.com.  Noelle Sampson’s tears were staying in place but threatening to fall again. She and her boyfriend of almost-but-not-quite 1 year:7 months:12 days broke up 2 months:8 days:20 hours:27 minutes ago. The way she tells it, he did the breaking. Noelle’s…

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  April 20, 2022

  2022, Fiction

  Branson, Bridge, Cheese Curds, Chicago, Ferris Wheel, Julie Johnson, Minnesota, Missouri, Navy Pier, Springfield, Wisconsin, WordPrompt

• Cuban Spirit

  

  Reverent. Real. Resilient. Resourceful. These are just a few of the words I would use to describe the people I met in Cuba. By our standards, life is hard there, but they make it work. They are warm and gracious hosts. They serve with gladness, and they nearly always smile, no matter what is going on…

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  November 6, 2021

  2021, Neighbors, November 2021

  Ben Wingo, Branson, Characteristics, Counseling, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Cubans, Focus on the Family, God, Kathy Wingo, Marriage, Missouri, Money, Pesos, Resilient, Reverant, Richard Wingo, Springfield, Therapist

• Sidelined, but Fighting

  

  Traci Prater has cancer. Cancer does not have Traci Prater. Friday night, March 12, I’m leaving work, and I put my trench coat on. It feels heavy, and I feel a slight pain in the center of my torso, just below my sternum. I think to myself, “Well, that has never happened before.” But the…

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  July 5, 2021

  2021, July 2021, Neighbors

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Bethel Baptist Church, Big Cedar Lodge, Brain Cancer, Branson, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, God, Indicators, KY3, Liver, Murney Associates, Psalm 103:8, Real Estate, Sharp Pain, Stage 4 Colon Cancer, Stage IV, Traci Prater, Urgent Care, West Plains, Zane