Rockwall, TX (June 28, 2024) – No disease was needed to shut down April-May classes and commencement ceremonies this year. It appears that illnesses of the emotional type are equally contagious. Those staples of modern American culture—offense and outrage—so easily feed these epidemics. It’s no surprise that college students have the vigor needed to sustain […]
ROCKWALL COUNTY, TX (June 16, 2024) Two weeks ago, a savage storm reduced my beloved church to ashes. I stood witness to its fiery demise, feeling helpless as the flames devoured it, ferocious yet agonizingly slow. I stood among friends and fellow congregants, as we watched men wipe away sweat and tears as they fought […]
Rockwall, TX (May 16, 2024) – All six of us were present and seated around our parents’ dinner table several days after our father died. We had also gathered here just five months earlier, after our mother passed away. None of us wanted to be recalled so soon to those duties that mingle with grief. […]
ROCKWALL, TX (April 24, 2024) The community is welcome to gather with the Mayors of Rockwall County for a time of fellowship, worship and prayer for our cities, county, country, and the world on the 73rd Annual National Day of Prayer. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. for the Mayors Prayer Breakfast, 108 E. Washington St. […]
Rockwall, TX (March 25, 2024) – Elizabeth Bennet and the aristocratic Mr. Darcy quietly observed each other at a local ball. Lizzy disliked his high-brow bearing, while he, though attracted to Lizzy, rejected any thought of a connection to her less cultivated family. Reading Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice could cure us of […]
Join the new church in town for Easter Sunday service Hope Global Methodist Church has begun! ROCKWALL, TX (March 18, 2024) This Resurrection Day, 31 March 2024 is a day to celebrate the coming of new life with renewed vitality, energetic hopes, and revitalized plans for the future. That’s exactly what the Hope Global […]
Rockwall, TX (March 14, 2024) – Rockwall Baptist Church and Pastor Tony Roa extend an open invitation to the Spring Revival with Evangelist Kurt LaBouve. Scheduled for April 12-14, 2024 the revival will include 4 services of Christ-honoring music and message. Service schedule: Friday evening – 7:00pm Saturday evening – 6:00pm Sunday – 11:00am & […]
ROCKWALL, TX (Jan. 24, 2023) The community is invited as Hava and Jimmy McClintock, Ambassadors for Israel Int. and Rockwall Chabad, host a county-wide Solidarity Event on Sunday, Feb. 25 featuring a presentation by the North Texas Chapter of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in support of Israel’s soldiers and their families. […]
ROCKWALL, TX (Nov. 19, 2023) From Thanksgiving to Christmas can seem like one long holiday, which for some folks isn’t long enough. In the eyes of a child, the passing months of the calendar all lead to the 25th of December. With childlike anticipation, I recently began counting down the days to a long-hoped-for event: my […]
ROCKWALL, TX (Oct. 25, 2023) A brave thirty-four-year-old left his native Scotland in 1858 and traveled four and a half months with his young bride to their chosen destination in the South Pacific. Though thankful to finally arrive at their intended island, relief soon gave way to horror and dismay. The local inhabitants were naked […]