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Victory Over Temptation, Part 2

I have been writing a series of articles on little temptations that sneak into our lives. The devil had one overall goal for Job, and that was to curse God and die. The devil is trying to test us and tempt us to do the exact same thing, to quit God, to quit the church, and to hate each other. Please refer to the newspaper for my last article.  Temptation number two is not to make friends in the church. We are afraid to make friends because we have been hurt in the past. When we hurt, we don’t forgive (part of my last article). We must understand the greatest commandment of all is to ...

More than just scary

The War on Drugs has an official start date. Actually there are several of them. The first one was June 18,1971. President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “Public Enemy Number One.” He saw to an increase in federal funding for drug-control agencies and drug treatment, according to “The War on Drugs: History, Policy and Therapeutics – Research Guides” at research.dom.ed Looking to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the war continued with the first wave of the opioid epidemic of overdose deaths involving prescription opioids through the 1990s. In 2010, the ...

Wrinkles common from UV light as we age

Editor’s Note: The following column was previously published Nov. 14, 2020. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, injuries and impairments that affect older adults. With this in mind, we at the local Visiting Angels office in Salem have created this series of articles to keep our older population and their families informed and to offer some practical advice for meeting the challenges faced by seniors and those who care for ...

Victory over temptation

Today, I am going to talk to you about temptation. I am not going to talk about temptation that we already know leads us directly to sin, such as murder, rape, drugs, sexual immorality, swearing. Anyone that claims to be a Christian knows that we cannot continue to practice anything that violates the Ten Commandments, and more. Today I am going to talk about the devil using little temptations to separate you from God. We find in the first chapter of Job, verse 11, Satan says, “Stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” Of course, ...

Taking a chance

What is the best advice or wisdom anyone has ever shared with you? Who was the source? Why did you find it so good it was worth following? I ask because, you know, we all have asked for advice at some time, but we didn’t always use it. How did you know the information was reliable, or the person who told you? As I have told you before, my mother taught me A LOT! She was one of the wisest people I have ever known. “Don’t follow the crowd.” “Do your own thinking, make your own choices.” “Before you blame someone else for something that goes wrong, you look at your ...

Managing the stress of caregiving

Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, injuries and impairments that affect older adults. With this in mind, we at the Salem Visiting Angels office have created this series of articles to keep our older population and their families informed and to offer some practical advice for meeting the challenges faced by seniors and those who care for them. ——— Serving as a caregiver for an elderly parent, grandparent or other family ...