Alarming rise of COVID cases in county

We are seeing an alarming rise in the number of active COVID-19 cases in Milam County. Since Sunday, we have had 43 confirmed new cases, bringing our total active case count in Milam Count to 103.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO... Next Monday is Trades Day in Rockdale, and in addition to the usual premiums offered by the merchants the day will feature a championship baseball game between Thorndale and Gatesville.

Heaven will be so good

I just got back from a mission trip to Houston. The original goal was to go to Syria and share Jesus with a wartorn country. I wanted to jump out of airplanes, into the back of Jeeps with a backpack full of Bibles like a Christian Indiana Jones.

Talking to God comes from your heart

Today I want to look at the books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians together as a look into why these epistles were necessary and what they taught.

Rethink opposition

As the COVID-19 Delta variant makes its way across the seas and deep into the United States, we join health officials and scientists to ask those who are unvaccinated to reconsider their decision.

Bridge club rules for other family members

In last week’s column I announced that the Fall Music Festival was going to make a comeback this year at Wolf Park. After press time some events beyond our control happened and it will NOT be at Wolf Park, for this year only. I will provide more information as it becomes available.

County passes historic small business grants

On Monday, July 26, the Milam County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to create a historic program to assist small businesses located in Milam County. The Milam County Small Business Grant program will be funded with up to $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act.

God is waiting on you

I just got a call from a friend, someone that I’ve had the opportunity to invest in, someone that I love a lot. My friend struggles (in case you didn’t know it we all struggle) with sin and it creates pain and hurt and eventually it leads to feeling hopeless and forever broken.

All are welcome at God’s gracious table

At the close of every Billy Graham Crusade you would hear the invitation to faith sung in the words of Charlotte Elliot: “Just as I am . . . I come!” In fact, Rev. Graham chose the title of her hymn for his own autobiography. It is a hymn for the imperfect of the world.

The importance of fathers, earthly and heavenly

A lot of research has been done in the past 15 years on Fatherhood and its importance in the development of children. As the traditional family is increasingly called into question by a progressive culture that seeks to redefine and reinvent, this is a defense of the father.