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SPEAKING OF FAITH: Compelling Devotion
We are called to be courageous Christians. Yes, meek, and humble are traits we should aspire to, but forthright, righteous, and brave as soldiers for Christ are also what Christians should be in the face of evil.
COMMENTARY: Take them up on it
A very good and productive discussion was held at the November Planning Board meeting. There hadn’t been a meeting since August and the relatively new representatives along with the Principal Chief were identifying the purpose and function of the Planning Board in addition to discussing outstanding land use issues currently in question.
COMMENTARY: Raging Cherokee
I want to talk a little about road ownership. I imagine the immediate reaction of our readers will be that all of them “own the road”.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Strategy – Time well spent
By TIMOTHY L. MELTON Pastor, Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church Reference Hebrews 11:1-3, 12 I do hope many will be led to declare what He has promised me and what He has put in my heart that is mine because if one agrees with me in prayer, I am going to push...
COMMENTARY: Social Media is the New Trade Route; Cherokee Artists in the 21st Century
Indigenous nations have been connected through trade routes for centuries before and after colonization. We traded food, beadwork, clothes, raw materials, anything useful or beautiful or both.
COMMENTARY: Under pressure
I, like many folks, came from a background of limited means – a family with a firm genealogy in Appalachia, genes from the Qualla Boundary through my father and genes from generations of Carolina mountain people from my mother.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Too bad
The motorcycle ministry is not for wimps or light Christians. Most of the best leaders I met came from backgrounds of ex-cons, enforcers, rapists, drug dealers, addicts, pimps, prostitutes, alcoholics, thieves, and murderers.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Let Go, Trust Him, Let God Have His Way
By TIMOTHY L. MELTON Pastor, Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate References: Hebrews 11:1-3, 12 Our sinning speaks loud enough for others to hear. That’s why one can tell someone hasn’t been praying for the last few weeks. I do...
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