Game on!
By Shavaughn Moss ~ Lifestyles Editor ~ shavaughn@nasguard.com:
Why am I going through this?
By D. PauL Reilly:
I just wonder how many of my valued readers have ever uttered the phrase which is the title of today's article 'Why am I going through this?' I bet the numbers are quite high, and while we're at it, I'll admit to the fact, that I have indeed uttered this phrase, or similar ones like 'Why God?', or 'Why Me?' on numerous occasions in my life when things were just not working out as they should be, as I expected them to, as I experienced painful failure after failure. Yes indeed, if we're all being honest here today, most if not all of us will admit to the fact, that as we experienced utter failure in some aspect of our life, and thus felt utterly alone and dejected; we looked to the heavens and cried out in anguish to God, puzzled by the fact that we appeared to be going through 'Hell on Earth'.
Seventh-day Adventists read the Bible non-stop
By STAFF WRITER ~ Nassau Guardian:
Members of the Seventh-day Adventists are of the opinion that it is time that people get back to the Bible and allow it to give guidance and instruction for family and leaders.
We all feel pain and sorrow
BY Rev. Samuel M. Boodle:
Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." — Nehemiah 8:10.
Along life's road
BY Rev Ruby Ann Darling:
Whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. — John 12:46.
Methodists take help and hope to Haiti
By Methodist WriterR ~ For The Guardain:
On Sunday, January 24, 2010 a delegation from the Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church visited the third largest city in Haiti, Les Cayes, which is located 120 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, to assess the situation in the Haitian province and get the firsthand experience of how and where the emergency supplies the church sends to the region is received and distribution.
Seventh-day Adventists assist with Haiti relief efforts
By Pastor Leonard A. Johnson ~ For The Guardian:
Haiti Disaster Saddens Adventists!
Rekindling the fire
By Raquel Pinder ~ Guardian Intern:
Elkin Coakley Sr. started a fire in the mid-1950s with his group The Sensational Sons of Joy which over the years has produced a number of gospel hits. Coakley Sr. passed away in 2002 and the group faltered without their founder. But his son Vallen will not let his father's group die and is now in the process of trying to rekindle that fire his father started way back when.
GRANDPA Age ain't nothing but a number
By Chakara Bennett ~ Guardian Intern:
Mayaguana native Clayton Taylor always had a dream and he always knew he wanted something big out of life, but life and its responsibilities always seemed to get in the way — that is at least until he decided that he needed to do what he needed to do for himself. The young man who had to stop his early education at age 13 and seek work now holds an associate's degree in urban Christian ministries studies — 60 years after he first left his education unfinished.
A time for fellowship
By THEA RUTHERFORD ~ Guardian National Correspondent ~ thea@nasguard.com:
A time for fellowship and spiritual growth, the 49th Annual West Indies Baptist Fellowship Conference (W.I.B.F.) has brought pastors and church members from around the region to Nassau for the third time in its history.
Along life's road
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breadth of life and man became a living soul." — Genesis 2:7.
It does not matter in what state of health you are in, since you are breathing then you are indeed alive! You may not have given careful consideration as to how you go from place to place and are able to perform, devise, articulate and calculate, but you do so at the expense of the air that you breathe. And pray tell me, where does that come from? Take a commercial break to figure it out.
Focus on the children
By SHAVAUGHN MOSS ~ Lifestyles Editor ~ shavaughn@nasguard.com:
Is your youth and children's ministry in a slump, or your church simply doesn't have one, then a one-and-a-half day conference by student ministries pastor at Pathway of Life Church in Dallas, Texas, Pastor Ricardo Miller will be just the place for you to learn how to revive the ministry or even start one.
Archdiocesan Catholic Women's Auxiliary heads into its first convention
By STAFF WRITER ~ The Nassau Guardian:
It could not have come at a more timely moment but the Archdiocesan Catholic Women's Auxiliary will host its first women's convention under the theme "Catholic Women in Prayer: Celebrating a Year of Favor from the Lord." The convention will be held at SuperClubs Breezes, West Bay Street, starting on January 28 and will run through January 31.
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince killed in Haiti quake
By JAMEY KEATEN ~ Associated Press Writer:
PARIS — Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, has been killed in the Haiti earthquake. He was 63.
Everyone is beautiful
I guess that most of us, at one time or another, have heard the words of that often sung song "Everyone is beautiful in their own way". Yes indeed, they are. And yet there are unfortunately a whole lot of people who do not believe the truth about themselves, which is in fact that they are beautiful, for true, lasting, real beauty is not some shallow, outer veneer; oh no, True Beauty is something much more important than that, for Real Beauty is WITHIN.
Let's face it, we're all individuals with individual likes and preferences. So, whilst one person may think that another person of the opposite sex, whom they're physically attracted to is beautiful, this same person may not appear to be at all attractive, beautiful to someone else. That's right, we all see things in our own, unique, individual way. What we see in a person, someone else may not see.
Spreading the message of 'hip hope'
By Arthia Nixon ~ For The Guardian:
For the second year in a row, Manifest (born Lavard Parks) will be kicking off the new year outside The Bahamas with a January tour.
Christians point people to Christ
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. — Romans 6: 1-4.
Cheap grace is something we often talk about in the Lutheran Church. What do we mean when we talk about cheap grace? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran Theologian, who was martyred during World War II, explained it as "the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession . . . Cheap grace is grace without discipline, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate." — The memoirs of Bonhoeffer, page 47.
Along life's road
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. — Psalm 139:23-24.
Because of the incident involving the young man from Nigeria on Northwest Flight 253 bound for Detroit from Amsterdam, the security search process at airports globally has been heightened and extensive. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose underwear was a weapon of mass destruction intended for the bombing of innocent lives on this flight, told authorities he received his training and the explosives from al-Qaeda in Yemen. |
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