Pictured above: Alex Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone ********************************* A major studio has just released a film about three heroic Americans who stopped a terrorist attack—and it ties that heroism to their Christian faith. By John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera, February 9, 2018 at: http://www.breakpoint.org    On August 21, 2015, a high-speed train […]
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           (…continued) The other story comes from the Japanese prisoner of war camp made famous in the 1957 movie The Bridge over the River Kwai; which won the Academy Award for the Best Picture of the Year (and six other Oscars). It is a great movie, but was based on a novel that varied much
1675) What Shall I Give? (part four of four) Read More »
By Joshua Rogers, August 2, 2017 blog at: http://www.joshuarogers.com —————————-    A few years ago, I had this new coworker who came off as weird — really weird, and within a couple of weeks of his arrival, a lot of people in the office were making comments about him behind his back.    I didn’t
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Today’s meditation is from Rick Warren’s June 4 & 6, 2017 blogs at http://www.pastorrick.com ———————-    Every day God gives you little opportunities to show kindness to people around you.  As he does, he’s watching to see if you’re going to be self-centered or if you’ll notice the people who need a word of
   Alice Kahana, an artist who lived in Houston, had a painful and vivid life-long memory of her journey to Auschwitz as a fifteen-year-old girl.  On the way, she became separated from her parents and found herself in charge of her eight-year-old brother.  When the boxcar arrived, she looked down and saw that the boy
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From Rick Warren’s Daily Hope devotional blog, April 28 & 29, 2017, at: http://www.pastorrick.com ——————————     Our natural tendency is to hate our enemies or at least to avoid them at all cost.  But if you run from conflict, you’re going to be miserable most of your life.  Jesus calls us to a higher
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By John R. Erickson, posted February 25, 2017 at:  www.wng.org .  John is the author of the popular Hank the Cowdog book series.  He and his wife, Kris, live on their cattle ranch near Perryton, Texas. —————————–    I don’t get it.  From the time The Gilgamesh Epic was written on clay tablets 5,000
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   There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.  His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.    The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the
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By Erma Bombeck  (1927-1996), Syndicated columnist. ————————-    It was one of those days when I wanted my own apartment… unlisted.    My son was telling me in complete detail about a movie he had just seen, punctuated by 3,000 ‘You know’s?”  My teeth were falling asleep.    There were three phone
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By Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (1804-1864); based on a paragraph from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin    When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he was very fond of fishing; and many of his leisure hours were spent on the margin of the mill pond catching flounders, perch, and eels that came up thither with
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