Faith

PASTOR’S CORNER, Tyler Prater, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal

If you’ve ever made a New Year’s resolution, you know how hard change can be. “I’ll get in shape this year.” “I’ll be more patient.” “I’ll finally kick that bad habit.” Maybe you start strong. You make plans. You buy a gym membership. You download a new app. But eventually, life gets busy. Old habits creep back. Before long, you’re back where you started, and maybe even a little more discouraged than before.

PASTOR’S CORNER, Tyler Prater,, Fellowship Baptist Church, Liberal

It’s a question that haunts every generation: Why is the world so broken?

You don’t have to look far to ask it. Turn on the news, scroll through your phone, walk through your town. Pain, injustice, violence, poverty, loneliness – they’re everywhere. No matter how much progress we make technologically, politically, or socially, we can’t seem to solve the deepest problems of the human heart. We all feel it: Something’s not right. The world is not the way it’s supposed to be. But why?

PASTOR’S CORNER, Tyler Prater, Fellowship Baptist Church

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why am I here?” It’s one of the oldest and most profound questions a person can ask, and yet it comes to us in surprisingly ordinary moments. Sitting in traffic. Graduating from school. Walking out of a funeral. Waking up to the same routine and wondering, “Is this really all there is?” Whether we admit it out loud or not, this question lives deep within every human heart: What is my purpose?

PASTOR’S CORNER, Pat Mann, President of Good Samaritan Auxiliary

Colossians 2:7  TLB "Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done."

The soil is really important. The part of the plant that we don’t see under the ground is as important as the part above ground.