The Olney Education Foundation is reaching out to supporters of the Olney Independent School District during the Texoma Gives online fundraiser on Sept. 7 to help more OHS grads achieve their dreams of higher education.
The Olney City Council considered raising property taxes to balance the fiscal year 2024 budget which is being squeezed between inflation and state-mandated property tax cuts. The Council also was considering removing some dedicated revenues, such as fees for water tank maintenance, from the general fund and creating an apparent deficit on the City’s books.
Another year of Summer Reading has ended at Olney Community Library. Lots of readers new and experienced came to the library and counted points and number of pages for this year’s contest. The contest began June 1 and ran through July 31.
When I stop thinking about your goodness, this world terrifies me. My brave, bold strides turn to undetectable shuffling, until I stop moving altogether and just stand there, melting into the shape of everything that I’m afraid of. I stay there, looking nothing like who you built me to be, and I stare unblinking at the terrible things that could happen.
Too often as Christians we have a tendency to feel a strange sense of pride when we hear that a fellow Christian has fallen into sin. We share prayer requests for Christians who are caught up in disobedience, and we shake our heads with concern, inwardly judging that we are doing better than that fallen one, that we may not be perfect, but at least we aren’t where he is. We grow pride-puffed with even the slightest indication that we are more righteous than another. But there could be no feeling in the world more in tune with the devil himself than pride, especially in the face of another’s sins.
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