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Empower yourself with a good education

August 9, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Rusty Potter  One of the greatest investment you can make is the investment in your mind. The pennies you put in your head will produce thousands of dollars in your pockets. Benjamin Franklin said, “An investment in knowledge pays…

Rusty Potter

“If it had not been for the Lord…”

July 26, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Lisa Wilmore Scripture: If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say, If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they…

Lisa Wilmore

God Said, “Use Bibles to teach My Bible School attendees!”

July 26, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Dr. Jacquelyn Simmons Scripture: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.…

Jacquelyn Simmons

Be a lifter, not a leaner

July 26, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Rusty Potter W. Clement Stone said, Be careful of the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful of the friends you choose for you will become like them.” Friends will either help you to rise or…

Rusty Potter

God will handle your “ditch-diggers” and “trap-setters”

July 19, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Lisa Wilmore Scripture Reading: And Esther said, the adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and queen. And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the…

Lisa Wilmore

My Friends! God is warning us again of his bug invasion!!

July 19, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Dr. Jacquelyn Simmons Scripture: If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or If I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by…

Jacquelyn Simmons

Be greater than you were yesterday

July 19, 2019 Free PressBlogs

By: Rusty Potter Goethe said, “ Look at a man the way that he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.” You must…

Rusty Potter

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Celebrating Birthdays Today: --Monica Culpepper, Rosetta Cleveland, Adrian D. Harris, Gary Smith, In Loving Memory of Beatrice Harris, Andrea Watson, Luvinda M. Modicue Holloway, Janet Jackson, Gloria Cole, Jacque LeMar Fontenot. (9)
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