Rolla Daily Digest Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Ty's Take

There's a sermon waiting to happen in that headline, and most of us sitting in the pews already know how it goes. We hear it every few years, usually when somebody local decides the world needs to know how important they are, and a pastor or a decent neighbor has to remind them that pride's still pride, even when you're building something real. In a town like Rolla, where S&T's got engineers who'll work on problems nobody's paying them to solve, and where people still know their neighbors well enough to call them on their nonsense, that message lands harder than it does in places where anonymity's easier. The Ozarks have always been skeptical of swagger. When someone forgets that, somebody usually speaks up. Sounds like this Sunday, somebody did.

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Phelps County Focus

Humility: Jesus frowns on shameless self-promotion

Former Macedonia Baptist Church pastor Tim Richards reflects on the value of humility, drawing inspiration from the 1963 Mount Everest expedition when climbers Sherpa Nawang Gombu and Jim Whittaker chose to reach the summit together rather than compete for individual glory. Richards argues that...

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