Spirituality

Miracle in the rain

The saying goes that “art imitates life” and is true in most instances. One thing is for sure, movies like the 1950s flick “Miracle In The Rain” with Van Johnson and Jane Wyman can make you feel glad and sad at the same...

Where you were, where you are and where you’re going

If some of your goals for 2017 have fallen by the wayside, this may be a good time to reflect on the words of the apostle Paul in the Bible: “One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,...

You are here for a purpose

By Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, Sun Lakes First Baptist Church A teacher, assigned to work with a hospitalized school child on nouns and adverbs, arrived one day and was taken to the burn unit. After she had scrubbed and put on...

Mind Games

By Dr. Marc Drake   Years ago, as the story goes, a little town in the United Kingdom built a new jail that supposedly had an escape-proof cell. The great illusionist and escape artist, Harry Houdini, was invited to come...

To be truly grateful

By Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D.   Thanksgiving enables us to comprehend the true meaning of life: to be thankful for all the harvests of our days. God is where God should be—in our hearts and minds, in our deeds and actions,...

Church seeks community’s help to reach goal of 8,000 food boxes

Sun Valley Community Church (SVCC) will have a food drive from Nov. 12 to Dec. 17 to benefit The Salvation Army. The food drive is part of the Valley church’s Out of the Box program, which has helped feed 15,000 families...