Religion Briefs
Editor’s note: To submit a nonprofit announcement to The Sentinel’s Religion section, contact Tom Laub at (717) 248-6741 or by email at living@lewistownsentinel.com. Items also may be faxed to (717) 248-3481 or sent to The Sentinel, 21 S. Brown St., Lewistown, PA 17044. Items must be received by Tuesday during business hours for publication in the Saturday edition. Submissions will be published as space allows. The editor reserves the right to edit all submissions. ••• First Bakers UMC to host Bible study McCLURE — First Bakers United Methodist Church will host a Bible ...
A Christian pastor called Arapaho ceremonies 'idol worship.' Now the tribe wants her church gone
ARAPAHOE, Wyo. (AP) — Every Sunday morning on the Wind River Reservation, congregants gather at Foundations for Nations Church to pray while protesters outside do the same. The two rituals have unfolded in parallel since the Christian church's pastor, Sarah Lucas, preached a sermon ...
A vision to help
Have you ever been stranded on the side of the road, out of gas, or broken down, waiting and hoping that someone would stop? I have. And every time, before too long, someone came along to help. I've come to believe that God sends that kind of help. He knows something about us that we don't ...
To understand God’s Word, we must put it into context
Then Simon himself also believed – Acts 8:13 In the last article we saw how easy it is to read Scripture and give it a 21st-century meaning because of the modern day in which we live. This usually leads us in the wrong direction. To understand God’s Word, we must put it into the ...
Depression is curable
"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?" Psalm 42:5 I'll tell you why. It’s a depressing world out there. Pick up a paper or turn on the news and we encounter death, disaster, despair. Whether the stories are about hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes, wars or ...