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4 days ago | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
It seems many don’t care how their actions or mindset affect others. As long as one gets his or her own needs met, the others can take a long walk. However, there are rays of hope that continue to shine through that give hope to a resurgence of kindness in our nation. All is not lost. Kindness and thoughtfulness can be fostered when one recognizes the great significance of other persons.
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2 weeks ago | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
Thank you for supporting journalism at your local newspaper. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at Crestview News Bulletin. Opinion I am one who enjoys technology. The latest gadgets catch my attention. When it comes to computers, I like to do everything I can to keep them running smoothly and powerfully. By Rev. Mark Broadhead – First Presbyterian Church of Crestview
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1 month ago | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
How often many people forget this. In life various professions get praised and touted as being the best. In a way, these praises follow fads: astronomers when a new planet or astral phenomenon is discovered; chemists when new combinations of chemicals are formulated. There is nothing wrong with this at all! It’s just that God is forgotten in the midst of all the hoopla. God provided those skills and intellectual abilities for those discoveries and progressions.
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1 month ago | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
Many of us have been thirsty at one time or another. But have you ever been so thirsty that all you could think about was having something to drink? I have. It is a terrible feeling. The tongue becomes dry. The throat feels like sandpaper. The body starts to react in ways it is unaccustomed to. The brain starts to cry out, “When will this horrible feeling end? When will this thirst be quenched?” Satisfaction becomes an obsession. That is how much our souls long for God.
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2 months ago | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
As we move through life, some of these changes can be anticipated. How we manage these transitions is important in our emotional and spiritual development. Some changes are filled with anxiety. Even though we often can’t name that anxiety, it is still felt. And it causes us to behave in ways that we don’t often understand. We are experiencing a great deal of change in our society – which sometimes gets reflected in our congregations.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
A few will say: Well, I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Some will say: This too shall pass. Others will say: Why do I never get what I want? Still others will say: I don’t want to deal with this unpleasantness. You fix it for me. Give me exactly what I want and demand!How do you respond? Are you able to accept that some things just don’t turn out the way you had hoped or anticipated? Do you kick and scream until you get your own way?
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
Try as he might, he couldn’t get out because the sides were too steep and slippery. He realized he was too far away for anyone to hear his cries for help so he accepted the fact that he was going to have to settle down and spend the night, trusting that someone would find him in the morning. Snuggling into a corner he soon fell asleep. After a short time, another man took the same shortcut through the cemetery and fell into the same open grave. He tried everything he could to get out.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
Make little things bother you: don’t just let them, make them!Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost. Don’t put first things first. Get yourself a good worry – one about which you cannot do anything but worry. Be a perfectionist: condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection. Be right, always right, perfectly right all the time. Be the only one who is right and be rigid about your rightness. Don’t trust or believe people or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
How well did you do on Giving Tuesday? Were you as generous on that day as you were on the previous two special shopping days? How are the Christmas party plans coming along? How many different events are on your calendar between now and December 25th? I continuously hear people remark how busy this time of year is – more so than any other time. It almost becomes a time of dread instead of meaningful celebration.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
crestviewbulletin.com | Mark Broadhead
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday that is celebrated all across the nation. This holiday was first celebrated in 1621, when the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast. It later became established as an annual event to encourage people to focus their thoughts on their thankfulness for the gifts, joys, and even challenges in life. And yet, within the last decade or so, there seems to have developed an oxymoron of sorts.
