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Are you one of the lucky ones that has had braces? Or maybe you currently have braces like me. Yup, braces as an adult.  It’s funny how kids respond to them. “Oh, you have braces?” I think instead they want to say, “You’re old. Why do you have braces?” Why braces? Because something needs to be fixed. Was that too simple?  Okay, some reasons then: overbite, underbite, open bite, spacing,…

Christians believe “God so loved the world that he gave his only son” to take away the sins of the world (John 3:16), and as such, Christmas is a celebration of the arrival of Jesus as told in the Bible’s second chapter of Luke:   In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. … And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to…

The Star Herald this week is dated Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, so our editorial staff thought it fitting to use this space to remember the reason for the season: On Dec. 25 we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. For Christians, that little miracle baby was God’s son, born to save us from our sin. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not…