by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 4, 2011 | Opinion
I would like to publicly congratulate Flat Rock Baptist Church of Mt. Airy, North Carolina for its courage in following God’s leading, even at the cost of being spurned by kindred congregations. And I would like to congratulate a group of pastors and messengers...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 3, 2011 | Opinion
Water is one of those things you don’t think about until you don’t have enough of it, or on the rare occasions when you have too much. Then it jumps up and screams at you and gets your attention. I’ve thought about it every time I’ve had to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 30, 2011 | Opinion
I was struck, recently, by two quotations relative to words and magic. Neither included “abracadabra, “please,” or “thank you.” One of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett, but I just got around to reading his award-winning Nation...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 27, 2011 | Opinion
How can something already dead be dying? Easily enough, if you’re the Dead Sea. The plight of the Dead Sea has been known for years, but was recently highlghted by an article in Time Magazine. The Bible speaks of what we call the Dead Sea as the Salt Sea (KJV,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
There’s nothing like finding an oasis in the middle of a long journey. For Old Testament travelers, an oasis was usually found at a spring or well in the midst of a desert land, places like Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea (left), or Beersheba in the Judean desert....
