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Articles by Gary Toole
A HAPPY ENDING: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | Since I was just a child sitting at the feet of my grandfather, I’ve always loved a good story. I guess that’s one thing that’s helped make me a writer. I love to write about the good old days and reminisce by telling nostalgic stories of the past. Jesus was the greatest story teller. His parables still confound men to this day.
A GENTLEMAN: The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | When I hear some folks especially the fake news people speak of criminals I just can’t help but laugh. Sort of like when they call their dog their son. Now that is something foul to remember for a long time. Just the thought of it gives me the hewee jebbies (south Georgia English for the spooks.) Or say maybe like calling an old sow in a mud hole a good looking old gal.
APPOINTED UNTO MAN: The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | The bible says in Hebrews 9:27, that it is appointed unto man once to die and also the word states that there is a time to be born and a time to die. Many folk take all this as to meaning that God has slated each and everyone a certain date and time to die. Well, that would be predestination and God doesn’t work by coercion or predestination. That would work contrary to His will and purpose for mankind.
A DIVINE MIRACLE: The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | When my father, John P. Toole, was just a young man, he and his brother, Pickens, went to a revival at an old Pentecostal country church. Of course, they didn’t really come to worship, but rather to court. My dad’s brother was sweet on this little girl, so he decided to sit beside her. During the service, her jilted, jealous ex-boyfriend came in. He was known to carry a knife and make threats. He sat right behind my dad and his brother.
LIKE THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | Now I have made some profound prophesy about television and where it is going and it amazes me to see it unfolding right before my eyes and ever more confirms the prophesy that old uneducated men of God gave back in the early to mid 1940’s when folks first started to hearing about television and when it really hit the country with black and white sets in the early 50’s they really preached against it and they were laughed out of town so to speak.
SOFT AS A CLOTH: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | The scripture says in St. Luke 14:11, “For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” It don’t get no plainer than that! The only kick back is that some folk don’t want to humble. They let false pride (bad pride) and arrogance get in the way.
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | When you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, then you are in fellowship with the one that bought your soul at Calvary. When your soul is saved, then you’ve got something more valuable than the whole world. When you have the true blessings of God, they are priceless. We have a peace that surpasses man’s understanding. What kind of price can you put on that? We have the fruits of the Spirit – love, joy, peace and so on.
THE CAT MAN: The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE, The Christian Way Ministries / * Inglés y español | I was watching an educational program about psychotic obsessive behavior and they showed a picture of this normal good looking kid at about age 9, that later did a stint in the navy. He became obsessed with tattoos and started to having his face tattooed like tiger strips. From there to now he’s spent over $200,000 on modification surgery and techniques to make himself look like a tiger. They call him the cat man.
A WORLD SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL *
By Gary Toole / The Christian Way Ministries / * Inglés y español | Unless Jesus comes back, there will come a time that it will be almost impossible to live in society. This is a world spinning out of control! The psalmist cried out, “How long oh Lord will I be oppressed!” The response is, “Not long!” Never in my life time of being poor and peaceful would you see such a frenzy of greed and it is out of control! I get so sick and so do you of how television has become so greedy.
LOOK LIKE A DUCK: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | They say that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck! So true! When you see an army general then most of the time they are wearing an army uniform of some type, so they are recognizable. The policemen wear uniforms most of the time. Discounting those uncover cops.
The Family That Prays Together: THE CHRISTIAN WAY MINISTRIES *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | While everything is debatable in general terms, there are absolute truths that work without question. The proverb we’ve heard all our lives, “The family that prays together, stays together,” is true. It’s been quoted so often and with such religious fervor that some have even thought it was an actual scripture. Of course, many scriptures back this saying up.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | When I came up in the Church of God, we called everyone brother and sister from 12 to 90. When I went to this church of a different persuasion to visit with a friend, a ten year old, he would call an old man by his first name, instead of Brother so and so. He would say, Mister so and so.
LOVE BUGS: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | Nearing the fall of the year in South Georgia, especially we are bombarded with what is nicknamed, “Love Bugs.” What got me to thinking was having to wash those pesky things off my windshield and car. I thought, “To me they are more of a hate bug than a love bug, because I hate those bugs.” They call them love bugs not because of reproductive reasons, but because they pair up together and hang with each other.
A LITTLE DAB WILL DO YOU! The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | That was a Brylcream commercial of the 1950’s and 60’s, “A little dab will do you!” Well, this old boy that was sweet on this girl thought that if a little dab would do the trick then a whole handful would really make him even more befitting to his sweetheart. It was a hot July day and by the time he walked to her house two miles away he looked like someone that had been dipped in a barrel of grease. Running onto his ears and nose, then dripping off.
ARE YOU FREE? The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | I walked into a restroom in a store and a sign said “Are you free? Do you want freedom?” It was about human trafficking, which is a nice nasty way of saying, “Slavery.” President Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves and yet, with those know nothing wild knot heads that were tearing down and defacing historical monument,s they spray painted all over the one of the great Presidents – Abraham Lincoln.
BEWARE OF THE MASTER: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles On this sign it read, “Don’t worry about the dog! Beware of the master!” Well, well! Now that is true in many cases. You see I learned at an early age that it is the master of the dog that you don’t trust. This lady told me to come right on in through the yard gate. Her dog was making an awful fuss. Dogs don’t like me no way. So, I trusted her and took her at her word and in I went and there he came.
GET ANGRY AND SIN NOT: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole, / * Inglés y español | A Christian should be a loving, compassionate and caring person. Not full of bitterness and anger, which are poison to the soul, but to think as some do that if a Christian gets angry then they have sinned is wrong. The Bible clearly affirms the fact that if we get angry we are to sin not. Ephesians 4:26. Don’t swear or beat someone up just because you got angry! Amen! Anger is a normal emotion that must be controlled.
CART AHEAD OF THE HORSE: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | They say that if you want to know how to raise children, and the Bible calls them children, then just ask someone that don’t have any. Well, that is not necessarily true, but that don’t mean that folks without children are totally lost as to how to raise them. Common sense teaches you a few things. So this preacher said that he was teaching his grandchildren good finance practices.
A HELP MEET, The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | In Genesis 2:18, “And God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” So, the first operation took place.
CARRY THE CROSS: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | Every year almost someone literally carries a heavy wooden cross on their back across country. Some carry it 200 miles and some even further than that. I don’t know if anyone has carried it around the world. If not, maybe someone will. But when I hear that I think about what Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me then let him take up his cross and follow me.” Now, of course, that is not a literal wooden cross.
A FORM OF GODLINESS, The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | The Bible speaks of a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof in II Timothy 3:5. I came up in a Pentecostal church and we preached and practiced the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance and yet so many protestant churches deny this experience. How can they? And why would they?
BUILT ON THE ROCK: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole | * Inglés y español | When will man ever learn to read and study God’s word? Folks that follow the Bible don’t go as bad wrong as others that don’t follow it. The Bible tells us how to avoid a lot of misery and trouble, if we would just follow it. So much flooding and washing folks homes away and for thousands of years, it has been in the Bible about the man that built his house on the sand and it washed away.
A ROSE GARDEN: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / * Inglés y español | There was a song that said, “He never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine there’s gotta be a little rain sometimes.” Throughout the Bible, it is very clear that we will have lots of troubles, trials and tribulations. Bad things happen to good people and it’s not ‘why does bad happen to good folk’, but rather ‘how do they handle the bad’.
SHUN THE VERY APPEARANCE: The Christian Way Ministries *
BY GARY TOOLE / * Inglés y español | The Bible says in 1st Thessalonians 5:22, “Abstain from the very appearance of evil.” I’ve often thought about that and realized that even if it seems evil whether it is or not we should shun it to be safe from the harm of sin or to avoid being led into a trap by satan. He comes at us in cunning ways. Evil appears beautiful and harmless at times. It’s a trap. Evil can seem like an illusion.
FOOL’S GOLD: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / *Ingles 7 española | I’ve heard all my life the old adage, “Everything that glitters ain’t gold.” How true that is! We’ve learned that the hard way the last four decades.
DO YOU HAVE JOY? The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole / *Ingles y española | There’s a little song I learned as a child, “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, up in my head, down in my feet. I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy all over me. All over me to stay!” A lot of people confuse happiness with joy, especially in this materialistic secular world. They talk about being happy. If you are successful, you will be happy. If you are wealthy, then you are happy.
A GOD THAT’S REAL: The Christian Way Ministries*
By Gary Toole / *Ingles y española Years ago when I was just a boy at our home church, we had a lady that was what we called “slow” back then. I don’t know what they call it now. She was a little on the moody side sometimes, but she was just full of love. She loved the fine art – paintings, music and poetry. She would always ask me to sing, “My God is Real”. It always made her face just beam with joy and it was an encouragement to me. I am still singing it in my ministry now.
DON’T LOOK BACK: The Christian Way Ministries*
By Gary Toole / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles So many folk keep dragging themselves down spiritually by always looking back and dwelling on their past life. Your past life should be like a rear view mirror in your car. To remind you to stay on the right track, but if you turned around in your seat while driving and looked back, you would have a terrible collision. So it is in our Christian walk.
THE BUCKET LIST: The Christian Way Ministries*
By Gary Toole / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Years ago all the old sayings got started mostly by the country folks, because what few well off people there were back then, they certainly were not going to stoop to those old country sayings, which most all were Bible based. Based on the wisdom of God. Now what few sayings they come up with now are certainly not based on God’s word. You can count on that. Most things now is to denounce and defy God’s word. Tell it like it is.
THE CHEERFUL GIVER: The Christian Way Ministries *
By Gary Toole, / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles The Bible states in 2 Corinthians 9:7, “Every man (person) according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.” It doesn’t get any plainer than that.
DID YOU KNOW…? Did two airline CEOs settle a dispute over an advertising slogan with an arm-wrestling match? By Jack Bagley*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Time for that honored tradition, my annual letter to Santa Claus! Dear Santa, To tell you the truth, I don’t want anything special for Christmas this year. I know, based my past history, that’s pretty amazing, but at my age … well, I already have everything I need and a great deal of what I want. So if you had anything specific for me, please leave it under the tree of a deserving soul who could use it better than I.
Sunny Days are coming - Inspirational Thoughts by Beverly Young
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles 🗣️Breaking News 🗞️ 👈🏽Read All About It!!! God’s Sovereignty ☝🏾 For example: saiah 43-19 what does it really mean? Needless to say that the Israelites had wearied God with their sin and disobedience, but God is faithful and promises once again to care for them and provide for them. Yes , we aren’t escaping, we do to from time to time.
12U BULLDOGS WIN DISTRICT 8 TITLE, ADVANCE TO GRPA STATE PLAY*
By Carol A. Gasser Moore / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles TIFTON, Ga. — Lanier County Parks and Recreation’s 12U Bulldogs captured the GRPA Class C District 8 championship with a 28-14 win over Fitzgerald at EB Hamilton Sports Complex. After a scoreless first quarter and a defensive battle into the second, Lanier seized momentum late in the half.
Charlotte: Good News By Vic Dove*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles “With His own blood…not the blood of goats and calves… He entered the Most Holy Place once for all time secured redemption forever.” Hebrews 9:12 Hey, have you ever felt useless to God? Perhaps you are ill, homebound, or frail and elderly. Perhaps you suffer sleeplessness, or chronic pain. You’re unable to visit people, and perform practical, kindly services in their homes. You can’t share the gospel, teach, or maybe even read much.
Jon’s Privacy! Jon the Scout Cartoon by Jon Moore
Copyright © 2025 Jon Moore
DID YOU KNOW…? Whose is the most reproduced portrait in U.S. history? By Jack Bagley*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Now that we are in the last month of the year, and getting ready for Christmas, Hanukkah, and all the other great holidays, I thought it appropriate that I remind you of something. Winter is coming. (Did you ever see three little words that can sound like a good thing and a bad thing all at the same time?) Yes, time to prepare for the cold, the snow (depending on where you are), and all that other stuff.
VENTILATION SYSTEM By Gary Toole, The Christian Way Ministries*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles God made the body like a fine oiled machine that I and man has copied it to make other things. The camera is like the eye, the brain like the computer, the ear and vocal cords like the radio and television, and on and on, and also our emotions are like vents. A ventilation system … all heat and air conditioner units are made on that standard, they need vents. So do we and God knew it.
Itchy SWEATER! Jon the Scout Cartoon, by Jon Moore
Copyright © 2025 Jon Moore
Sunny Days are coming - Inspirational Thoughts by Beverly Young*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles The time that we have left on this earth -seems to fly by just like the cars traveling north and south on I-75. However, if you don’t make an to do list of things needed to get done -it’s will pass you by and you will look around and want have nothing completed.
He Did Not Have To Ask: Good News, By Vic Dove*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles “Being not able to get to Him because of the crowd; they removed the roof above Him.” Mark 2:4 First thing we need to realize in this story is that the paralyzed man had friends, true friends who cared for him; they had compassion for him and his condition.
DID YOU KNOW…? Did one actor play two different roles in every episode of a 1960s situation comedy? By Jack Bagley*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Most readers of this column will be receiving it on the day after Thanksgiving. You know, the day when you realize that all of your clothing somehow mysteriously shrank overnight and it’ll be a few more days before you feel comfortable thinking about food again. You will soon grow weary of turkey leftovers – sandwiches, casserole, hash, however you prepare the leftover bird.
THANKS, By Gary Toole, The Christian Way Ministries*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Several years ago after our Christmas play on Sunday morning, I told the church about how blessed we had been, because for the first time in over thirty years, we changed our play time to a Monday night. It was always Wednesday night or Thursday night.
1969 The Tribute to Bring Retro Rock Experience to ABAC on January 22*
By Carol A. Gasser Moore / *La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles TIFTON, GA — Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) is gearing up for a high-energy night of nostalgia as 1969 The Tribute returns to the spotlight on Wednesday, January 22. The performance, part of the Arts & Culture at ABAC lineup, promises a dynamic celebration of the music that shaped one of the most influential years in American pop culture.
Receiving the Grace of God: Sunny Days are coming - Inspirational Thoughts by Beverly Young*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles “Ephesians 1:8-9 For by grace are yea saved through faith and that’s not of yourselves it is the Gift of God. The faith is substances of thing hoped for the evidence of things. It seen, however , this verse states crispy clearly that salvation comes through God’s grace and our faith, not through our own efforts.
Tommy T.: Good News, By Vic Dove
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles “Don’t use foul or abusive language; let everything you say be good and helpful…so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.” Ephesians 4:29 When Mrs. Rogers, a fourth grade teacher in an Atlanta inner city elementary school, looked at her class roster on the first day of school. She was glowing with anxiety from the excitement and joy she felt over starting a new term.
Thanksgiving at M&B: Jon the Scout Cartoon by Jon Moore
Copyright © 2025 Jon Moore
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT, By Gary Toole, The Christian Way Ministries*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles The nine Fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. One fellow said that he was glad patience was not on the list, but it is! To be gentle, good, long suffering and temperate, you have to be patient and practice patience. They all go hand and hand.
DID YOU KNOW…? Who was the first female superhero? By Jack Bagley*
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Next Thursday is that wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving. The day after, of course, is the official start of the Christmas shopping season. While I love the holidays and what they mean, I also realize that this time of the year has been set up especially to help separate people from their money.
The List: Good News, By Vic Dove *
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles “The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.” Psalm 103:6 I would like to start this article…with some good news…we can have peace, but there is a condition…we have to pursue it. We have to make a decision that since we are with ourselves all the time, we should like ourselves. God created us and He does not make junk. So, we must start seeing our strengths and stop staring at our weaknesses.
DID YOU KNOW…? Who is the Baby Ruth™ candy bar named after? By Jack Bagley *
*La traducción al español sigue a la noticia en ingles Ah, the approach of Thanksgiving makes me remember. The holiday itself just makes me fat. But memories … they still don’t have any calories, so I enjoy them a lot. Like the one where my ex-wife once said that when we were together, every day was like Thanksgiving. “That’s what I got for marrying a turkey,” she said. Anyway, you came here for trivia, not bad jokes. (At least I hope you did.) So as not to disappoint, here’s the trivia.
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