Archive for August, 2011

Budget Shortfalls

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dr. Jerry Rankin

Most households struggle to make ends meet, especially those growing families with educational bills and mortgages to pay beyond routine living expenses. It is too easy to let credit card balances grow and find oneself being sucked into the quicksand of interest payments and growing indebtedness. Educational institutions, churches, denominational entities and other organizations face […]

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Something Better than Answered Prayer

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dr. Jerry Rankin

I doubt if there is anyone who has not struggled with the issue of unanswered prayer. We know all the promises about God hearing and answering our petitions, how He honors the prayer of faith in Jesus name and so forth. But often, in spite of our prayers, a sick child is not healed, financial […]

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A Financial Travesty

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dr. Jerry Rankin

Our national government has apparently avoided the catastrophe of financial default, but no one is happy. Seldom have we seen such a shameful lack of statesmanship in dealing with a self-imposed problem. Actually, there was no immediate satisfactory solution to a debt crisis that has been building, even beyond recently imposed aberrant policies. For generations […]

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Summer Reminiscing

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dr. Jerry Rankin

House guests are gone, no more travel for a couple of weeks, and the hot summer days have resulted in some reminiscing as we sit on the porch watching the sunset. Most of our friends are aware that we bought my family home place where I grew up in Clinton, Mississippi. The property had been […]

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