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What the city’s residential development means for its population
Read moreThe landscaping of John Gibson, at 18309 Rock Sage Cove in the Westwind subdivision, has been selected as Elgin Garden Club’s winner for November’s yard of the month.
Read moreSMITHVILLE TURKEY TROT 2023 SMITHVILLE – Lace up your sneakers for the annual 5K/1 mile Turkey Trot with Smithville Parks & Recreation in historic Smithville. Event starts and ends at the Smithville Recreation Center with a 9 a.m. start. Strollers and leashed dogs are welcomed to this family friendly run/walk. Let’s get “huffin’ from the stuffin.’” For more information, call 512-237-3282.
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Read moreElgin’s long-standing Pizza Hut cemented their favor with the city by joining the Elgin Chamber of Commerce.
Read moreSMITHVILLE — The Buescher State Park has just finished construction on their historic dam and spillway, as well as introduced two new terraces for residents to take advantage of.
Read moreThe application deadline fast approaches for City of Elgin 101, the town’s citizen academy in place to educate residents about local government operations, cultivate future leaders and showcase the talents of city staff members.
Read moreOn Thanksgiving Day we express our gratitude to the Lord for all His blessings to us, but what goes along with that is that it also a day for us to repent of the times we have been thankless. If we are honest with ourselves, sometimes we are like Bart Simpson in one episode of the Simpsons, when he said this dinner time “prayer”: “Dear Lord, we bought this food with our own money; so thanks for nothing.” It is easy for us sinners to slip into thinking that we are self-sufficient, and to forget that everything we have is God’s gracious gift to us. Or, when things are not going as well as we would like, sometimes we even grumble about what God has given us to endure; “Thanks for nothing, God,” we think. For this we must repent, this also is why we need to pray, “Lord, give me the gift of thanksgiving.” When we confess, “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,” this means that there is nothing in this entire cosmos that is not created by God, and therefore we have nothing of ourselves. We are entirely dependent on Him for everything. Everything we have is from God, as a free gift we have not earned, and because of that, giving thanks to Him constantly is our duty, our obligation— giving thanks is not optional, and it is a wretched sin to omit it.
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