I’m miserable – not in the sense that I’m some mean old cur like some of my detractors would have you believe. I’m in genuine misery. I had major oral surgery on half my mouth. (The other half is to be operated on in two months, so I’ll be going through this whole self-pity thing again. Watch out!!!)

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. – I Corinthians 15: 13-14 Many people get upset with the Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. It offends them that God would even care about bringing a dead body – a corpse – back to life.

The Glory Way Quartet will be performing at the McGuffey Free Will Baptist Church at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9.

Before you know it spring will be here. I know it’s hard to even imagine it with all the snow and ice around us here in Hardin County. Living in Ohio we are used to different seasons. Trust me soon enough it will be track season.

The Latter Rain Quartet will be in concert at Quickstep Pentecostal Church of God, south of Alger, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. The public is invited to attend.

Heritage Christian Union Church, 15738 Ohio 37, Forest, will be hosting the singing group Broken Ground at 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. Refreshments will be served after the concert.

Rev. Ernest Manns will be preaching on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at Well of Grace Fellowship Church, 525 N. Ida St., Kenton. Church overseers are Ronnie Dean and Diana Scott.

Besides serving a church I work as a hospice chaplain which means that often I listen to stories of people going through very difficult times. It is my job. Very often at one point or another those who share their stories with me pouring their hearts out suddenly ask me a question, “Chaplain, where are you from? I hear an accent.”

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me.”—Jonah 1:2 I think some people think that I should be using this platform to call out and identify all that is wrong in this town, county, state and nation.

This Sunday, many churches will celebrate the Day of Epiphany as one of the churches major holidays. The passage above is from the gospel lesson often used for the Day of Epiphany. The magi came to Jerusalem to find out where the newborn Jesus was so that they could bring gifts and worship him.