Ask Aunt B

Dear Aunt B, How do you celebrate friends? I really love my friends and I feel they get lost in all the hectic of living. Thank God for Friends Dear Thank God for Friends, Today I think my answer to how do you celebrate friends would be frequently. Celebrate your friends frequently.

Laymen’s Corner

Many people seem to think that being a Christian means living a dull and drab life with a long face and no fun and games or excitement in their lives.

Trends in Social Media

Unfortunately, social media often has more influence on youth behavior than parental example and influence. I’m referring specifically to the TikTok challenges that inspire typically well-behaved young people to take risks or commit unsavory or illegal acts to net a degree of social media fame.

Laymen’s Corner

Christian joy has not gone anywhere. Each Sunday morning in Sunday school I see Christian faces filled with joy and excitement to have fellowship with their Christian brothers and sisters. Sometimes it is hard to get the Sunday school lesson started. I believe that is the way it will be in Heaven.

The Teachers’ Lounge

Professional Heroes Teachers have it good. They get lots of days off, long breaks around major holidays and they get entire summers off. If that were not enough, they get paid for the summer breaks as well. Thus saith no teacher…ever.

Ask Aunt B

Dear Aunt B, I want to go back to school. Is there an age when you are just too old to learn new things? Back to school Dear Back to school, Absolutely not, it is never too late to learn. I love learning and don’t ever plan on stopping. There are so many avenues and ways to learn now.

Laymen’s Corner

If you have ever come to Jesus and received salvation you still have it. If you couldn’t sin enough for Jesus to turn you down when you came to Him, you cannot sin enough for Him to take away your salvation.

Letter to the EDITOR

Dear Forney Messenger, This is an open letter to Dr. Terry, FISD Administration, and the FISD Board of Trustees: My name is James Jarrett. I am 46 years old and in reasonably good health. My family and I have made Forney our home for the past 14 years.

Three Rights Make a Left

A Very Trying Week WEDNESDAY I got a text from my cousin Jean in South Texas asking me to pray for a fellow classmate from Floresville High School. She said that our friend’s daughter had Covid and had been put into an induced coma to try to combat the effects of the disease.

Pop the Clutch

It was a random Tuesday morning. My soon to be husband had looked all over the world to find me the perfect rescue kitten – a calico – and had presented her to me over the weekend. Too late, we learned she was too young to be separated from her mom.