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Reaching Goals
Shay Taylor-Allen was a janitor at the Yale New Haven Hospital where she was born. She finished high school and had no desire to go to college. So, she started working as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital. Through her work there, she started...
Reputation
In a French mayoral election recently, the two candidates have the interesting names of Hitler and Zielinski. I couldn’t pronounce their first names. They had a bitter battle in campaigning. They said the biggest thing to overcome was the fact ...
Community
More of us ought to be more conscious of people who make life better for us and thank them for it in some way. In Richardson, Texas at the Moss Haven Elementary School, a crossing guard, Trecia Crawford, was honored by a group of dads whose kid...
A Little Is a Lot
Kayla Kleine and her husband live in Vancouver, British Columbia. They have a little 6-pound Pomeranian, Scout. A big bear entered their home and walked into the kitchen. He started eating out of the little puppy’s bowl when that tiny fluff bal...
Memorial Day
Albert Einstein once said, “The world is too dangerous to live in, not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen.” Years ago, Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
Who Do You Listen To?
Just after the resurrection of Jesus and the early church was forming, Peter and John were arrested for speaking out for Jesus. They came before the Council Chamber and the Council commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jes...
Don't Quit
Years ago, many roads in the south were dirt roads and became muddy and a big mess during rainy weather. One day a young boy was traveling down such a road with his father. They came up on a neatly dressed man whose car was stuck in...
Be A Leader
The whole world was shocked a few years ago when we watched Notre Dame De Paris engulfed in flames. A huge cloud of smoke covered Paris. People looked on in anguish and dismay. It wasn’t known if any of the valuable relics fro...
God-Honoring Talents
We all have talents – we need to use them in a productive way that honors God and helps others. Bill Waldschnidt loved working on classic cars. Today he’s working on another means of transportation. He is a retired Minnesota e...
Helpful Joking
Sometimes a joke is really appropriate and sometimes people don’t get the joke. A Texas police officer had encountered a couple of men who were being questioned as suspects in an illegal operation. In order to sort of lighten the mood for their...
Think Before You Act
Think before you do something foolish. That would have been good advice for Nathan Remington of Yorkshire, England to have followed recently. He is a truck driver and really wanted to have some gummy candies. He lost all sense of discipline and...
Only Jesus
There is a new business in Japan. Funeral homes and spas have started a trend—coffin lying. You can rent the inside of a coffin and meditate about death. The cost is $13 and you can use an open or closed casket. Some of the people offering coff...
Invest Wisely
God gives us financial resources and expects us to be good stewards of them. In 45 states last year, Americans spent over $100 billion on lotteries. Combining all of those would make U.S. lotteries the country’s ninth most profitable company. T...
Boldness
As the early church started to grow, Luke records in Acts 4 how all of the leaders began to unite against Jesus and his servants Paul and John and the other disciples. He lists that Herod, Pontius Pilot, the Governor, the Gentiles, and the peop...
Attitude of Gratitude
Every day we can complain about a lot of things, or we can be grateful that we are alive, that God has given us another day to live, that we have food to eat, and that we have a purpose for the day. A 10-week experiment was conducted at t...
Word Choices
Jesus never minced words. He called it like it really is. What He says is not to make you feel better, but to offer you a good choice for your values in life.
Real Beauty
Being a beautiful person is not how you look in a photo that can be photoshopped. Real beauty is internal. Real beauty is not how you look in a picture, but how you live in fulfilling God’s purpose for you!
Why Wait?
Most of us want to do something good in life but we find excuses as why we don’t start now. We tend to think we will wait until another time. Let me remind us, we do not have to have all our ducks in a row to start sharing with othe...
Simple Communication
If you want to communicate something, don’t make it too complex, too inflammatory, too simple—pick out the right words to communicate what you intend to communicate. A good translation is John 3:16 and all the parables that Jesus taught.
The Power of Words
The most valuable words you have are God’s words of faith, hope, love. Those are not negative and they do carry with them a possibility of something different. Let your actions today communicate the words of faith, hope, and love.
Invite Jesus In
Jesus can give peace of mind and all the support that anybody needs, including you and me.