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Sometimes a church, or an individual, must risk something in order to accomplish the task pleasing to God. It is much too easy to take the path of least resistance, and if that is all we ever do, we would have left undone the challenging tasks. I like what Neil Simon said, “If no one ever took risks,…

Two men who The Ohio Highway Patrol honored as heroes for rescuing a woman from her burning car have now decided to sue her, claiming they suffered physical and emotional injury during the rescue. David Kelley and Mark Kincaid were driving a truck in southeast Ohio when they saw debris on the road and…

A White Christmas for North Carolina in 2010 meant a little extra money in the wallets of customers of a Wilmington jewelry store. The owner of Perry’s Emporium, Alan Perry promised to refund the cost of jewelry purchased at his store between November 26 and December 11th, if Ashville got more than three…

There is a calculated risk in everything. There has been a calculated risk in every stage of American development. The nation was built by men who took risks – pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers…

You have to be careful about being too careful. - Beryl Pfizer

RISK A new study conducted by a risk management firm suggests that where you live may affect your chances of being involved in a serious auto accident. The study examined accident rates of motorists with homes near a variety of businesses and landmarks, analyzing 15 million insurance policies and 2 million…

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. – Charles F. Kettering Life Is Tremendous, Charlie Jones, page 36

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky Reader’s Digest, October, 1999, page 61

A ship in harbor is, safe, but that is not ships are built for. Braude’s Handbook of Stories, Jacob Braude, page 329

Even churches can know what it is to walk on the water. Wes Seliger is an unconventional Episcopal clergyman who loves motorcycles. He tells about being in a motorcycle shop one day, drooling over a huge Honda 750 and wishing that he could buy it. A salesman came over and began to talk about his product.…

My ankles were wrenching painfully against old, rock-hard dirt ruts. Burning wind sliced across a barrage of prairie grass and straight through my flimsy cotton shirt. Overhead, a blistering Midwest sun made a mockery of the straw hat I’d worn to ward off its rays. Next to me, my wife and children were…

Art and Chip Sansom’s comic strip The Born Loser. The three boxes show a mother leaning on the back of her husband’s chair, where he is sitting with his young son sitting on his lap. In the first frame the son asks, “Have you ever had a near-death experience, Pop?” The second frame shows the father’s…

It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena …who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least…

Good Samaritan Counts Cost Taxi driver, Peter Anderson, came upon a car accident and saw three bruised and bleeding people. He offered his taxi cab for them to sit in as shelter until help arrived. Anderson explained what happened next: “They had a few cuts and bruises and I let them shelter in my cab.…

John C. Maxwell Successful people do not have less challenging lives than those who do not succeed. In fact, they may go through even greater challenges. What causes the separation? Successful people respond to difficulties differently. It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way.…

All of the following cases, along with many others, were found on the web site m-law.org. 1) Our favorite from the website is from Grand Haven, Michigan. A cleaner had stolen what she thought was a large candle from the condominium she had cleaned. Later, while at a restaurant with friends, she lit the…