Religion

Calvary Apostolic Church, 1103 Eighth St., Carrollton, with Pastor Miles L. Miller Jr., invite all to the 57th anniversary celebration. Services will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, with Elder Jonathan Alvear of Conyers, Ga., speaking and at noon on Saturday, Aug. 17, with Elder Mark Kerr of Carleton, Mich., speaking. A meal will be served after each service.

In our everyday lives it is always a good idea to be in constant communication. Parents communicate with their children and children with parents. We always like to keep in touch with our relatives, co-workers, friends of the family and even casual acquaintances.

There are many outlets that greatly facilitate the way we do this, cell phones, e-mails and text messaging. It is now actually harder to stay out of touch with someone, and there are fewer excuses we can make because it only takes us a few seconds to say “Hi, how you doing?”

Years ago I wrote a book about idols, which is just another word for sin.

An idol is whatever you turn to first — a person, possession, position, relationship, substance, belief or experience — for comfort, security, identity, meaning, etc. Basically, anything other than God.

As I wrote the book, I got halfway through it and decided I was tired of being smacked upside the head with my own idolatry.

Sheesh. All I wanted to do was write about other people’s idols/sin and make a boatload of money.