From 1969 to 1992, there was a program on television called “Hee Haw.” One of the more popular skits was a song with the line, “Gloom, despair and agony on me! Deep, dark depression, excessive misery! If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all! Gloom, despair and agony on me!” From […]

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Not to pile on here, but can someone explain to me how popular ‘Christian’ author Phillip Yancey can be considered a Christian? This has nothing to do with his recently revealed eight-year affair with a married woman that he just admitted to. Given his theology, that really is no big surprise. It has everything to […]

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Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for January 20, 2026. Today’s top stories are dominated by the evolving landscape of U.S. foreign policy. President Trump is reportedly taking his boundary-pushing to the world stage, showing a new willingness to invade or attack countries and running roughshod over long-standing international agreements, with his focus […]

In ten “sleeps” our youngest daughter and her boyfriend are flying into Florida from Washington State. (I’m happily wondering if he will request that “talk with Dad”?) My heart is so tender and excited for them to be under our roof! They are so loved that my arms are anxious to hold them tightly, something […]

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January
21

763: Thirteen
years after coming to power, the Abbasids defeated the Alids at the Battle of
Bakhamra, ending this challenge to their Caliphate. The Abbasid Dynasty lasted
for approximately 500 years and ruled an area extending from Central …

By Lauren Ludwig     Lee University will host the annual Great Strides Walk and 65 Roses 5k at Great Strides on Saturday, March 28. An event of the Cystic Fibrosis […]
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