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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, 352 Sixth St., Lewistown, PA 17044. Items must be received by Tuesday for publication in the Saturday edition. Submissions will be published as space allows. The editor reserves the right to edit all submissions. ••• UMC to host Bible study LEWISTOWN — First Bakers United Methodist Church will host a Bible study every Wednesday at 7 p.m. ...

Power of integrity is being honest with God

"Are we people of integrity?" Psalm 32:1-11 Would people say you have integrity? Do people put their trust in you? Are you who you seem to be? Integrity, at its heart, is simply wholeness. When something or someone has integrity, it means there is nothing false in them. Everything’s authentic. It’s the same inside and out. Frank Lloyd Wright, the master architect, once said, “What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life, integrity.” We certainly want integrity in our buildings and in our bridges, don’t we? We don’t want ...

Seeing the miraculous among the mundane

Hello, my dear friends. It’s so good to be at the computer again. Recent weeks have kept me quite busy working out what I am determined to do...spend much quality time with my grandchildren. Have I mentioned recently that I’m blessed to have thirty plus? It can be exhausting, but so very rewarding. I had determined at the start of this year to implement a new plan of action with my grandkids, so that they might know and remember that grandma loves them so much. The plan is to have a different grandchild come and spend the night with me on a regular, weekly basis. By doing so, they ...

A pattern of failure

I want to examine the life of a man by the name of Achan. Achan is called Achar in I Chron. 2:7 where it says, Achar, who brought trouble on Israel by violating the ban on taking devoted things. The Hebrew root of the name Achar means trouble. How would you like to be named trouble? But truly Achan was in trouble and his name was changed because of the events in Joshua chapter 7. The events that preceded Joshua 7 are familiar to most of us. Six times the army of Israel marched around the walls of Jericho and on the 7th, as the song goes, the walls came tumbling down. But I want to ...

Juniata County hunger ministries receive checks from CROP Walk

By Graham Fowler MIFFLINTOWN — On Tuesday, Feb. 14, coordinators of the Juniata County CROP Walk visited Meals on Wheels – Juniata County and the Juniata County Food Pantry to give them some big checks. Juniata County held their 50th CROP Walk on Oct. 9, 2022 at the Walker Township Park. ...

God’s perfect gift gives from above, comes down

James 1:17 says, “every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation or shadow of turning.” One-day God spoke in my heart that he gives good gifts in the midst of the bad. Many times we look at trials as bad when God sees something good that can come from it. What Satan means for evil…God will turn for our good and He will receive the glory! Romans 8:28 says all things work together for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. Did you ever receive a gift that you didn’t like, ...