The Georgian Gazette

  My parents were not blessed with much formal education, but both of them were wise in dealing with the issues of life. Mother and Daddy insisted that their children receive as much formal education as could be attained.   Daddy called it, “book learning.” My sister, brother, and I continued our training in the formal levels of education beyond college graduate degrees. It did not matter that we had surpassed our parent’s levels of formal training; in my opinion, we never reached their level of wisdom. My mother understood the basic principle of economics to be that one must never spend more than they have available. She believed in being frugal in her budget goals for our family. Daddy understood the political world like no one I have even known. He always looked at the character of a person when determining how he was going to cast his vote. With very high moral standards, Daddy held those who represented him to those same standards. As children, we often heard our parents...

  My parents were not blessed with much formal education, but both of them were wise in dealing with the issues of life. Mother and Daddy insisted that their children receive as much formal education as could be attained.   Daddy called it, “book learning.” My sister, brother, and I continued our training in the formal levels of education beyond college graduate degrees. It did not matter that we had surpassed our parent’s levels of formal training; in my opinion, we never reached their level of wisdom. My mother understood the basic principle of economics to be that one must never spend more than they have available. She believed in being frugal in her budget goals for our family. Daddy understood the political world like no one I have even known. He always looked at the character of a person when determining how he was going to cast his vote. With very high moral standards, Daddy held those who represented him to those same standards. As children, we often heard our parents...

Three of the gospel witnesses, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, record almost verbatim the last words of Jesus from the cross on the day we call “Good Friday.” Matthew’s account is found in chapter 27 verse 50, “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.” (KJV) Around the world today, Christians will celebrate this day as the day that Jesus died on the cross for the sins of all people. This brings to a brief halt the observance of Holy Week for Christians when observances will be conducted in churches to commemorate Jesus’ death. The day became known as “Good Friday,” because as Christ-followers think back, they realize that Jesus took on himself the sins of all the people of the world on that day, and did for them what they could not do. Jesus Christ’s death atoned for the sins of all people everywhere. All we need to do is to receive that truth by faith and our sins are atoned by the blood of Jesus and His death on the cross that day. The exciting news is that t...

The definition of the word conviction is: “A fixed or firm belief.” I have a deeply held conviction regarding life. My conviction that is unmovable and firmly implanted in my innermost being is; that life begins at conception, no matter how life was conceived. A further development of my firmly held conviction is that life, once conceived, should be allowed to live until the giver of life determines the natural end to that life. I can discuss with any person my belief system that is rooted in my worldview. This matter should not have to be debated and would not be debated had the Supreme Court not injected their secular worldview upon the moral issue of life with their ruling known as Roe v. Wade. From that ruling forward, our nation has been involved in the taking of life under the guise of choice and some vague concept of personal rights of the living, but not the personal rights of the unborn. When I express my conviction regarding life, I am quickly dismissed by some people as cl...