Editorials
Editorials

GETTING THE MESSAGE/Satan is a defeated foe

Revelation 12 teaches us that Satan is a defeated foe, yet he is still a dragon, and a menace to Christians as they go through this world

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

FLASHBACKS

It was officially announced Wednesday by Marion Perry, Chairman of Neshoba County Sixth War Loan Drive, that a total of $151,000 in E-bond sales had been made during the current drive in Philadelphia and Neshoba County. 

THOMAS/Pardoning the unpardonable

Media reports say President Biden is about to issue a slew of blanket pre-emptive pardons for people associated with his administration to thwart any “revenge” the incoming Trump administration might take against them.

BIBLE SELECION/John 6:35

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.  

FLASHBACKS

The W.D. Cole and Everette Cole families of this city gave $15,000 to Mississippi College at Clinton last week to establish the Cole Foundation, which is for the purpose of training workers for Baptist churches. 

THOMAS/Institutions vs. We the people

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats, especially, but also some Republicans, fear a second Trump administration.

GETTING THE MESSAGE/There is room for you in Christ

With Thanksgiving Day now in the rearview mirror and Christmas ahead, we are looking this week at a passage that sets thanksgiving in the context of what Christ alone can do for us. In Luke 11:11-19, we are given the account of 10 lepers who are healed by Jesus and their response.

GETTING THE MESSAGE/Thanksgiving

When we think of Thanksgiving Day, our minds usually run to the temporal mercies of God: the blessings of family, home, job, country, and so on.

BIBLE SELECTION

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.  

FLASHBACKS

Pvt. Claud "Jacky" Peebles, Jr., youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Peebles, Sr., of Deemer, was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in battle in Italy. 

EDITORIALS/Thanksgiving

The first recorded Thanksgiving was celebrated on December 4, 1619, at Berkeley Hundred, a plantation on the northern banks of the James River about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia.

THOMAS/To vet or not to vet

There is a reason the Founders wrote Article 2, section 2 and clause 2 into the U.S. Constitution.

BIBLE SELECTION/John 17:17

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

FLASHBACKS

The Farm Security Administration of neshoba County enjoyed a picnic Saturday (Armistice Day) planned and called by their leader Mrs. Olga Hughes for a thanksgiving celebration.

THOMAS/Trimming obese government

Fifty years ago when Ron Paul (father of Sen. Rand Paul) was running for Congress from Texas, a billboard featured an obese Uncle Sam with the caption “let’s put big government on a diet.”

BIBLE SELECTION/Colossians 1:9

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,  

FLASHBACKS

Mrs. H.T. Key, who has been appointed chairman of the Woman's Division for the 6th War Loan is making plans with her committees to raise the quota of E Bonds early in the drive.   

EDITORIAL/Rick Scott for Majority Leader

As the Republican Party prepares to take control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida emerges as the clear choice for Majority Leader.

THOMAS/Dems self-examine, but not the media

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment,” “self-reflection” and “regret.”

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