“I think I would have my own room and not with my brother,” says Danielle, 7. Danielle, if you did share a room with your brother, you’ll like the resurrection version of him. “Well, heaven is big. Go...

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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Then I said, ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I...

8th & Seminole • Okmulgee www.fumcokmulgee.org Please come join us this Sunday morning! Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m. Our combined Traditional/Contemporary Worship Service begins at 1...

“Is God Dead?” was the iconic headline of the April 8, 1966 issue of Time Magazine. To this day, it remains one of the most recognizable magazine covers of all time. The Easter season story gripped th...

Most of us have sat in a business office and have been instructed to sign on the bottom line in conclusion of some transaction. Maybe it was for the purchase of a new car or new home, volunteering for...

8th & Seminole • Okmulgee www.fumcokmulgee.org Please come join us this Sunday morning! Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m. Our combined Traditional/Contemporary Worship Service begins at 1...

Maranatha SDA Church will host a community fair Sunday, March 24, at the church, located at 1213 E. Chicago St. in Okmulgee. The free event will take place from 12-4 p.m. and will feature horseback ri...

(I copied this some time ago, its source lost to time. But its value is clear. I thank whoever wrote this, as it is worth so much.) When asked about the Passover, Barbara, a Jewish sister in Christ re...

As a journalist, I can imagine the conversation with the two Emmaus-bound disciples as a post-resurrection interview carried by a major television network. What makes this account so unusual is that J...

Picking Up the Pieces Grief is a part of life. There are so many things humans grieve over, some intensely personal like the loss of a long time pet or a stolen family heirloom, and others that are fa...

In a previous column, we observed some very important Christian practices we are exhorted in the Bible to pursue continually, all the day long, every day. We found in I Thessalonians 2:17 we are to “p...

Belvin Baptist Church will hold a Spring Revival March 24-27. A Sunday Supper will be held at 5 p.m. with service starting at 6:30 p.m. Evangelists will include Rev. Jr. Pratt and Gary Hawkins. Music ...

Okmulgee representatives from the Southwestern Association attended OSUIT for a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony of the renovated space for the university’s Industrial & Farm Equipment Technolog...

8th & Seminole • Okmulgee www.fumcokmulgee.org Please come join us this Sunday morning! Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m. Our combined Traditional/Contemporary Worship Service begins at 1...

Kids’ answers fall into three categories: the smilers, the hopeful and the performers. I call the first group the smilers because Ashley, 9, says: “Yes! You will definitely go to heaven if you are a C...

“For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not created it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited): ‘I am the Lord, and th...

Crossroads Baptist Church, located at Alt. 75 and Happy Camp Rd. in Beggs, would like to welcome you to join us! As a church family, our purpose is to connect people, grow believers and serve others. ...

“In order to be free, we need to believe in the Lord,” says Emily, 12. Yes, that is where freedom begins. Freedom from spiritual death comes from believing in Christ alone as one’s savior. That is why...

“In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order; for you shall die,...