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Warning to apostates a sobering one

Jude is a very small book but it deals with a very important matter which is highlighted in v.3. It is an appeal for us to contend earnestly for the faith. We are called to arms to protect the faith and fight for the truth because v.4 certain persons have crept in unnoticed and intend to turn the grace of God into a license to sin and to deny Jesus as Lord and Master. The tares have been sown amidst the wheat. Satan and his ministers are disguised as angels of light and they have infiltrated the church. So we have to be discerning. The subject is apostates, defectors from the faith. ...

New Year’s wishes from Bev’s Kitchen

Happy New Year from the kitchen! I hope you are all rested up from the holidays. As always, my most favorite gift was having all my kids home. As I get older, I’m realizing how important it is to be with family. I believe my mother was the same. She brought the family home with offers of ham dinners and chocolate cake with caramel icing but it was the sitting around that kitchen table chatting and sharing stories, telling jokes and reminiscing about days gone by that made her happy. As it does me now. Around the table, we solve the world’s problems, laugh at, and with, each other ...

I’ve been everywhere, man!

Two very iconic country songs merged to become the theme of my Christmas holiday this year. The first from Willie Nelson, “On the Road Again,” and the second, to quote the infamous Johnny Cash, “I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere, man, crossed the deserts bare, man, I’ve breathed the mountain air, man, of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere.” O.K., so perhaps I didn’t cross any deserts, but over this Christmas holiday season, I definitely put some miles on my car, and no proverbial moss grew under my feet! My travels began when I left ...

1968-71: Progress on library was slow

Things move very slowly and at times much too slowly. Last week, I told you about the 1968 vote for a Library Tax that was rejected. The tax would have been used to build a new, much larger library. But that didn’t happen. The overcrowded library remained at 35 South Brown Street through 1968, 1969 and 1970. It was just as overwhelming in 1971. I found photos from 1971 and I’ll post one on MCL’s Facebook page. The photo is a picture of the stairs. In the Brown Street library, the lower level was used for programming. Children walked down the stairs for story time. In ...

Homeschooling resources are available at the library

If you homeschool your children, check out all that the Juniata County Library has to offer. Request library books online: Our card catalog is available on our website. With a library card, you can request books and the library staff goes and pulls them from the shelf for you to pick up. Even when the library building is closed, the library is still available to you. Print and digital books for the classroom: Our library has tens of thousands of books, including many that are perfect for classroom use. In 2022 we purchased a fresh set of books about all 50 states in America as well ...

Story of three ministries

Mark 1:2-11 Mark 1:2-11 shows us about three ministries, how God works with ministers. First, God had a plan. I don’t say ‘God has a plan’, because God had it planned long ago. God has a big plan and a bunch of smaller plans. We see here, for example, that Isaiah described God’s plan for John’s ministry and Jesus’ ministry seven hundred years in advance. The third minister, well ... we’ll get to him in a few minutes and talk about God’s plan for him. John didn’t just fall into his ministry. God prepared the way. Luke tells us that an angel told Zechariah that John ...