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North Texas Food Bank has been serving Ellis County for 40 years

Forty years ago, four women pledged to fight hunger in North Texas. These visionary leaders – Jo Curtis, Kathryn Hall, Lorraine Griffin Kircher, and Liz Minyard – began collecting and distributing donations of surplus food and grocery products through a network of charitable organizations across 13 North Texas counties. In doing so, they created The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB).

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Grace is not a license to sin

The songs we sing on Sunday morning and the lives we live don’t really line up, do they? For example, “Jesus is all the world to me.” Maybe we should shy away from songs like that and sing, “How great Thou art” more often. It’s kind of like that old football cheer, “We are the Tigers, the mighty, mighty Tigers (or what ever team you cheer for).” If we are not “mighty” maybe we should not say we are?

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