Sassy Stampers Reflect

JoAnn Gantos The Sassy Stampers Club provided the Creative Art & Technology building main spotlight display in December, as well as our own smaller display window just outside of room 104. Please stop by and see the creative handiwork (one of a kind greeting cards) that our very talented club members created. April Bayne and…

Rough Road

Ed Jones, Pastor I love the raw emotions of the psalms. Many imagine strong faith as a smooth road of trusting God. Never wavering. Undaunted by obstacles. The psalms of lament are encouraging in the sense that they give us a glimpse of the struggles in faith that godly men went through. Like David. “How…

Crawford Road Is Happening: Right Now!

Commissioner Dianne Edmondson Yes, it has begun—at long last! On Dec. 9, an official groundbreaking ceremony was held at the corner of John Paine and Crawford Roads marking the beginning of this long-awaited $2.6M project. The construction contract was awarded in October to Jagoe-Public Company, a well-respected Denton firm who has built a large number of…

Word of the Month: Jeremiad

David Zapatka Dear friend and Wisdom Seeker moderator, Ellen Engel, suggested the word jeremiad for this month’s WOTM. Jeremiad: noun jer·e·mi·ad | ˌjer-ə-ˈmī-əd, -ˌad 1. a prolonged lamentation or complaint 2. a cautionary or angry harangue. 3. a long, literary work, usually in prose, sometimes in verse, where the author bitterly laments the state of society and its…