Faith

“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

(Hebrews 10:36 KJV)

“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

(James 1:4 KJV)

No one likes to talk about “having patience” it seems.

In today’s world, we want it now and don’t want to wait.

But patience is so much more than just waiting for the “sweet by and by”.

Dayspring Presbyterian
Kids Christmas Choir Sunday, December 23rd – 10:00am 
Candles and Carols Monday, December 24th – 6pm
6000 Mariner Blvd,
Spring Hill 
(352) 686-9392 
www.DayspringPCA.org

by SARAH NACHIN
HERNANDO SUN WRITER

Last weekend rural Brooksville was transformed into the the towns of Nazareth and Bethlehem when Hillside Community Baptist Church presented The Road to Bethlehem, a live Nativity. Members of the congregation played the parts of Joseph, Mary, the innkeeper, shepherds and angels. A live burro and goats completed the tableau. 

It was probably in a cave in the spring. 

And it probably stunk.

The heavy odor of urine and ripe manure, the musky perspiration of draft animals and the steady hum of flies. But it was someplace, in out of the elements, and in that filth she bore her child.

Not at home, or with her family, but in her husband’s ancestral village. A strenuous walk for a pregnant woman, come to be tallied and taxed, the only respite on the bony and swaying back of an ass.

And angels sang.

By ADON TAFT

Veteran’s Day on the 11th, along with elections and Thanksgiving observances, makes November, perhaps more than any other month, symbolic of the religious faith that most would acknowledge makes the United States  a “nation of exceptionalism.“

I am sure that many of you can remember when life was not so demanding and filled with anxiety or at least it seemed that way. I was raised in the city so when I had a chance to go to my grandparent’s house out in the country it was like going on vacation. They lived on a quiet overgrown road that came to a dead-end at the Kentucky River and their farm was so remote that when an occasional car would pass by we would stop and stare at it like it was entertainment.

For those who are interested in the life after this one, there is no doubt some curiosity about where we are going and how to get there. The followers of Christ place their faith in His promises and believe He has the power to save and secure a place in heaven for them. Others who prefer to live their own way are somewhat more skeptical and independent in their thinking. As a minister, I spend most of my time thinking, talking or writing about our spiritual life and most of the time the conversation will include questions about our progress according to God’s perspective.