Sweet Potatoes, Volunteers, and the Gospel
Thursday, April 22, 2021 @ 10:18 AM
“Come help us package and distribute four thousand pounds of sweet potatoes.” The appeal came last week via email from my church. Yes, it was for real. (More on the potatoes below.) Then, Sunday morning in Sunday school class I was given the “opportunity” to teach fifth graders on a Sunday this summer – just one Sunday. Always plenty of opportunities for volunteers.
Next, I came into the office Monday morning to discover that this is National Volunteer Week 2021. I trust you’ve been a volunteer.
I’m certain you’ve had countless opportunities to volunteer – coach kids’ athletics, serve on neighborhood watch, lead American Heritage Girls or Trail Life (for boys) groups, tackle community projects, teach Sunday school, chaperone student field trips, be a classroom mom, bring your tools for church clean-up day. The list could be endless.
Committed to a Cause or to the Christ?
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 7:42 AM
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” (NASB)
How do you express your faith? Is it evident mostly through the great Christian causes you support? Your local church? The Fellowship of Christian Athletes? Operation Christmas Child? Eight Days of Hope? I love to support all of those ministries in various avenues of serving and giving. But are they the front line expression of my faith?
It’s something I have to be reminded of all too often: The expression of my faith must be focused on the Christ whom I claim to serve, the only One who can truly change my life. And my world.
Many Alabama gun stores feel the heat as demand again soars
Updated Apr 02, 2021;
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Monte Caylor manufacturers ammunition in Madison. Since August, his small operation has purchased five new machines and hired as many new employees to keep up with unrelenting demand for ammunition during the pandemic.
“They’re going full guns,” he said of sales at Good to Go Ammo. “There’s still a shortage of ammo, and everybody wants ammo”
A slate of recent mass shootings, the arrival of stimulus checks, and comments by President Biden in favor of banning assault weapons earlier this month, may be factors driving up sales now, several gun retailers in Alabama told AL.com