Friday nights in Floyd Virginia are a celebration of country music, and on the first Friday of every month the artists of Floyd join in with art exhibits and receptions all over town. Art lovers and artists flocked to the Art Under the Sun Gallery to see the latest offerings from Flame Bilyue, Karen...

Jeff Jarvis recently wrote an interesting article "The Great Restructuring" in which he said, " Large-scale retail will shrink and consolidate and then be transformed by a search-and-buy economy." I think he may be on to something. It certainly applies to our family. It takes too...

Are we moving toward a cash and carry economy? I see friends emptying 401Ks to pay off credit cards and others who are seriously discussing bankruptcy after extended periods of being unemployed. Their confidence levels mirror the downward path of the stock market. I know at least one person who stil...

How to Keep Employees Happy During Hard Times It's hard to avoid the bad news these days-the stock market falling towards zero, home prices declining, homelessness rising, our spending power being chipped away. In your business, it's more important than ever to paint an optimistic yet realistic futu...

"If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!"... Proverbs 24:10Lately I watch the doom and gloom finance reports on tv and I watch people reacting to those reports and I watch myself and I think of that verse, above.Yet as Monk says, "Here's the thing:" ... God is like a teacher w...

This is a letter to all people who have gone through hard times To start this letter I would like to introduce myself. My name is Bryan; I’m 26, and live in Oklahoma. I have two brothers. I’m married, with one little girl. My mother and father divorced when I was six-teen years-old. My grandpare...

POLL RESULTS If you were watching ABC the other night, you may have seen Charlie Gibson smugly announcing the results of an ABC poll which showed 68% of Americans approved Obama's job performance to date. He was obviously very pleased by this. That didn't agree with my personal observations,...

I've gained a huge pet peeve in the last few years and namely it's this:I hate it when people complain loudly about a (usually governmental) problem, yet they, themselves, offer no viable hint of a solution.You don't want to hear what I feel like telling people who complain that way.And well, I know...

In Part 1 of this examination of three ideas/trends that rose to prominence in the 19th century, we looked at the industrial revolution, social Darwinism, and postmillennialism and how they fueled each other to wreak enormous societal change. Today, we look at their effects on Western Christianity a...

Most people have never considered the ideas I will be presenting this week. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone write on this subject (apart from me), either from a Christian or secular perspective. I believe with all my heart that what I write here today and in days to come is key to un...