Focus on Faith

John 14: 12-14, 15: 16, 16:

After 8 years of planning, preparation and many prayers, the members of Blanco Cowboy Church opened the chute gates on Saturday morning, April 26th, for their 1st Annual “Roping For Jesus” Team Roping held at Yett Memorial Park and Blanco Rodeo Association Arena. God’s clear blue Hill Country skies greeted cowboys and cowgirls traveling into Blanco from the north, south, east and west, and by 10 a. m.

2 Chronicles 7: 13-14 – 13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ”

Late-great comedian Red Skelton, a radio pioneer, gave us colorful impersonations of make-believe characters each week. We grew to expect them, our mind’s eye envisioning what they MIGHT look like.

Blanco United Methodist Church’s Children’s Choir sang two anthems entitled “Ask-Seek-Knock” and “Jesus, I Love You” on Sunday, April 13th. at the 10: 55 a.

I’d like to share two prayers that I believe kept me in God’s hand, all my life, (when I wasn’t exactly living right) in hopes that they will help someone reading this column. The first one is known as the “Our Father” or “The Lord’s Prayer,” and it’s found in Matthew chapter 6, verses 9-13.

When Edna Parker, the world’s oldest woman, turned 115 years old recently, she sparked another debate on reasons for longevity. In Edna’s case, some theorized it might have been caused by her lifetime of chores on the family farm. Others suggested it was just the result of having good genes (her sister, Georgia, lived to be 99 and another sister, Opal, reached 88), but her grandson, Don Parker, may have voiced the most likely causes that contributed to Edna’s long life:

Mark 16: 15-20 “And he said unto them, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

By Pastor J. D. Link

When Reinnie Barth was appointed a missionary to Germany, following World War Two, he knew he was going to serve in a difficult place during a tough time. But this dedicated man had no idea just how draining his task would be until he arrived and began counseling those whose world had collapsed around them.