My wife and I recently attended two community forums organized by a woman concerned over the calamity in our city wrought by heroin and other drugs. We were shocked to learn that heroin overdose deaths in 2015 in our city are projected to be six times the national average. Nor does it matter where you…
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Soon after becoming a follower of Christ, I heard the phrase “divine appointments.” Namely, that God arranges opportunities to touch another person’s life with the gospel or a word of hope. For someone who makes a living taking notes, you might think I would have kept better track of such encounters. Sadly, I haven’t. Still,…
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Sometimes the most significant events take place in relative anonymity, outside of TV cameras, cell phone videos, or news reporters chronicling it as “something important.” Such was the case at a recent city-wide prayer meeting at the Huntington High School auditorium. The gathering of several hundred individuals followed the Sept. 7 “One Prayer” observance sparked…
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Hundreds of Huntington, West Virginia churches came together—spiritually, not physically—on Sept. 7. The “One Prayer” initiative got its spark from Mayor Steve Williams, who asked churches to unite in prayer to ask for God’s help with the city’s serious drug addiction problems. The day after, a friend posted a Facebook link from her church of…
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Drug addiction is a scourge that affects every state and countless municipalities across America. A prime example is the governor of one of our least-populated states devoting this year’s state of the state speech to the “full-blown heroin crisis” gripping Vermont. I grew up in a city of about 55,000 in northern Ohio. Yet last…
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By Ken Walker- In the blur of “content” zipping by daily through every electronic device imaginable, you might assume that the written word makes little difference. However, the director of a residential drug treatment center in central Kentucky would disagree. Mark LaPalme of the Isaiah House knows the joy of opening an envelope with a…
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