The West Side Herald

Time Travel
Mark Gregory Mark Gregory

Time Travel

There are many movies and shows about time travel. There's "Dr. Who," "Back to the Future," "Star Trek," "Harry Potter," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "Groundhog's Day," "Quantum Leap," "Gravity Falls," and the list goes on and on. Where did this concept come from?

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Testing
Mark Gregory Mark Gregory

Testing

Testing. It is a word many of us do not like. Why do we have such a distain for testing? It may be we don’t like to know that we don’t know everything we should. Or maybe we dread testing because we feel like it is a trial by fire.

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Kernels of Corn
Mark Gregory Mark Gregory

Kernels of Corn

Wenchiki is the name of the first village we drilled a water well in. It was very remote and the road into it was not much more than a path. Wenchiki had a population of over 2,000, and the folks there were all farmers and all very poor.

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I've Set My Last Post
Mark Gregory Mark Gregory

I've Set My Last Post

Harry Tate was quite unlike any man I have ever known. He was a genuine Ozark product. He was a farmer by occupation, but a country philosopher at heart. He witnessed a lot of change in his eighty-five years, and he liked to discuss how it “was a sight on earth what the mind of man can conceive.” He was also an artist.

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Good News
Mark Gregory Mark Gregory

Good News

Wouldn’t you like to hear some good news? We all would! Bad news brings fear, pain, and sorrow; but “good news refreshes the bones” (Prov 15:30). “Like cold water to a thirsty soul,” declares another proverb, “so is good news from a far country” (Prov 25:25). Isn’t it time for some good news?

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