STAFF REPORT ::: Governor Brian Kemp is urging Georgians to not attend religious services, including Easter services, even those that are described as “drive-in.” Authorities say law enforcement agencies have received reports that participants of drive-in religious services are not staying in their vehicles, but are instead leaving them to allow children to play, use […]
Discipline your mind to destroy those thoughts not from God
December 15, 2016 by 3 Comments
DUSTY TAKLE – RELIGION COLUMNIST ::: I have moments where I worry just like you. I let my thoughts run wild. I don’t discipline them, and before I know it, I find myself awake in the middle of the night doing the exact opposite of what I tell other people to do. Anxiety fills me. Fear […]
Learn how to shift to love you now
November 17, 2016 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY GOSS TAKLE ::: I have found recently struggling to enjoy this season of busy schedules. Because it was really easy to enjoy every moment there, I’ve thought about a recent vacation to Maine and said, “Can we just go back to Maine where we eat six meals a day and linger at every beautiful […]
Think on these things
January 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY TAKLE ::: 8And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me – everything you heard from […]
Emmanuel – God is with you
December 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY TAKLE ::: 21And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. 22All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through the prophet: 23“Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call […]
Change the way you look at things
November 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY TAKLE ::: Wayne Dyer wrote, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” This is not some theory in my life. It has become a principle that has changed my life and how I view it. I can remember when we first moved back from Oklahoma, and […]
We all have full access to God
November 10, 2013 by 1 Comment
DUSTY TAKLE ::: When I told a friend recently that I had missed seeing her at church, her response was, “Oh, you don’t want to be around my yuck right now.” We all have stuff. We all have issues we need to work through. Sometimes, you may feel like my friend, stuck in a “yuck” […]
Stay connected to remain satisfied in Him
October 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY TAKLE ::: Is it possible to have Christ within us and still not be satisfied? Yes. I am not suggesting Christ is not satisfying. He is all satisfying. But, it is possible to never be satisfied in Him. Because, we lack an awareness of Him in all things. Satisfaction comes from spending time communing […]
God gives do-overs with each new morning
October 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
DUSTY TAKLE::: Remember when you were a kid playing one of those recess games, and someone would yell, “DO OVER!” And, usually he got his do-over? Life’s not always so simple. There have been many times in my thirty-eight years I wish I could do over. Like the time I told my parents I was […]
East Griffin Baptist adds to its already long list of ministries
April 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
East Griffin Baptist Church (EGBC) is not the type of church that opens up to preach on Sunday and is closed for the rest of the week. Dropping by the church on a Thursday morning, visitors will witness a bustle of activity; parishioners and needy individuals coming to find what they need at the weekly […]
The GRIP 