So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the…

Dedicated

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Posting signs along busy highways to deter criminals – namely human traffickers and smugglers – have appeared in at least two Crossroads counties.

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A partial shutdown of state government wouldn’t do anyone in state politics any good. Lawmakers still have time to erase the governor’s veto of the Legislature’s budget — but not a lot of time.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Vitality Court, Crown Hospice, and Excel Home Health partnered to honor Victoria first responders with donuts and coffee.

When a company comes to town, it can be hard to know what kind of relationship it will have with the community.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in…

Nothing offers a better distraction from nasty political fights over serious subjects than nasty political infighting over Texas college sports.

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Often, we don’t have a good understanding of what property we actually own.

Maybe croquet could improve the ratings for the 2021 Summer Olympics?

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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Most flights on an airplane follow a similar routine. There is usually a lot of activity as you start boarding the plane. People are getting to seats, stowing luggage, the attendant goes through safety, maybe the pilot says something, the plane leaves the terminal and airborne.

The following editorial published in the Beaumont Enterprise on July 19:

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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

At this time last year, we were at what was then a peak in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, facing a pandemic that could hit every person in the state.

This week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amidst a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases thanks to the delta variant. Biden immediately responded that companies like Facebook were responsible for murder: “They’re killing people — I…

CNBC regularly ranks the top states for business — and the winner was…not Texas!

The following editorial published on July 16 in the Houston Chronicle.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Having more information is almost always better.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal…

St. Joseph

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I was down the shore this weekend, enjoying the sea, the sun and the sweeping panorama of people without masks. Honestly, that was even more beautiful than the sunset over the Atlantic.

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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With the recent addition of brachytherapy, which radiation oncologist Dr. Matthew McCurdy called “the big, missing piece,” Citizens Medical Center in Victoria now has a comprehensive radiation center.

In the summer of 1977, I was finally old enough to get my first job. My first real job, that is.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

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I love Independence Day. I especially love seeing American flags everywhere. The flags help me to realize just how much that I love our country. I get goosebumps when hearing the “Star Spangled Banner” and seeing our beautiful American flag flying.

As a community, we should look beyond state test scores and instead look at what they mean.

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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness …

Through Tears and Trials

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We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: the…

The spotlight won’t shine for long on the story of Texas’ flyaway Democrats. The novelty will wear off. The cable TV networks will have other top stories before you know it, and this will become another of those insider fights of only passing interest to Texans who don’t have regular busines…