Category Archives: Opinions
Avoiding cognitive decline
Scroll around the internet to look for ideas about avoiding cognitive decline, and you’ll find a wide variety of suggestions and studies. One thing many of them agree on, however, is the value of playing 
games.
UCLA has it narrowed down to four types in particular. Brain training games came in at the top of their list after they did a
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Extra education benefits for vets
Have you been using your veterans’ educational benefits? Are you running out of time because you’re 
coming to the end of the standard 36 months of benefits you received? Because of two new rulings, you might be one of a million veterans who are eligible for an additional 12 months.
The rulings in question (Rudisill v. McDonough and Perkins v. Collins) say that certain veterans could get more education benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 GI
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Lineworkers are ready when it matters most
As the Vice President of Operations at Blue Ridge Electric Co-op, I have the unique privilege of seeing firsthand what it takes to keep the lights on for our members. It’s 
something I think about daily.
When you see forecasts of storms across our part of South Carolina, our linemen see a call to action. They are always ready to respond when outages occur. They are ready to leave family dinners and miss Little League games so they can work in challenging conditions through the night to get your power restored as safely and quickly as possible.
That readiness is not accidental. It comes from our rigorous training, deep experience and a shared commitment to serving others.
What makes linemen especially remarkable is that they are restoring power to their own communities. They raise their families here. Their children go to our schools. They shop at our grocery stores. They understand that the service they provide is essential to our daily lives — to our local businesses, farms and our neighbors, who depend on power for medical equipment or to simply keep food from spoiling.
Powering home is deeply personal to them.
Electric cooperatives were built on the principle
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What’s the big deal about evangelism?
Within the Christian worldview, some might ask, “What’s the big deal about evangelism?” We would think this response would come from non-believers, but sadly, 
there are also church members who have the same calloused attitude. When we consider the idea behind sharing the good news, we begin with comprehending that it’s the announcement and proclamation of the
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Connecting the dots
Exodus 5:1 “And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the 
wilderness.”
“Interesting” is not adequate to describe the connections we find throughout the Old Testament to the New Testament in God’s Word, the Holy Bible.
The creation in Genesis 1 connected to John 1: 3 in the
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Exercising to avoid falls
If your weather is anything like mine right now, the promised end of winter hasn’t happened yet, with storms continuing to roll in every few days right on schedule. The things that have not gone away yet, however, are Covid, flu and RSV.
Which means that getting outside on a schedule for exercise isn’t possible, and neither is working out on
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Vet suicide prevention grants
A cross the country, state and local governments, nonprofits, certain tribes and other community organizations are going to share in a $112 million grant program for their work in veterans suicide prevention.
The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (also known as SSG Fox SPGP) promotes outreach to identify veterans at risk, clinical services for emergency treatment, case
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The greatest announcement
Luke 11:26-28 “And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the
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