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Getting into fights A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?" "Yes,"…

Derrick Coleman is the only legally deaf football player in the NFL. Without the ability to hear, it is impossible for him to hear the play calling, but it didn’t deter him from realizing his dream to play professional football. He is an inspiration to many people. A little girl, Riley Kovalcik, 9, of…

Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Previously, Brought-Low had expressed his fears to a Pharisee in the temple (click…

When I was in graduate school at MTSU, I took a class in teaching exceptional children. That was the label they used in the ‘80's for “special needs” students: you know, those children who were mentally challenged, were blind, were deaf, or could not walk. It was a very interesting and sometimes eye-opening…

Though there is a growing movement to pray for outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens as he suffers from cancer, Hitchens insists believers do not need to pray for him. Hitchens contends in his latest book that organized religion is the main source of hatred in the world today. In an interview Hitchens…

A man thinks his wife is losing her hearing. A doctor suggests that he try a simple at-home test: Stand behind her, ask her a question from different distances, and see when she can hear it. The man goes home, sees his wife in the kitchen facing the stove, and asks from the door, “What’s for dinner tonight?”…

Change The older I get, the more resistant to change I am. The other day I was saying to Susan, "I wish there was a drive-in theater around here so we could go to a movie." Never mind the fact that now we can see whatever movie we want by going to an indoor theater or renting one, both of which we never…

Barry Lorch in his San Diego Union column recently told of a debate on the floor of the United States Senate about 130 years ago. The issue was whether alcohol should be sold in the territories seeking statehood. One notoriously anti-alcohol senator, who, according to one description, was so dry he was…

CHANCE Does fortune really smile on a select few people? What role does luck or chance play in our lives? The experience of a Wisconsin church suggests there are no such things as either luck or chance, but that God is involved in everything that happens. In August 1992, a tornado swept through a small…

Prayer is the discipline of listening to that voice of love. Jesus spent many nights in prayer listening to the voice that had spoken to him at the Jordan River. We too must pray. Without prayer, we become deaf to the voice of love and become confused by the many competing voices asking for our attention.…

John: I got this great new hearing aid the other day. Mary: Are you wearing it now? John: Yup. Cost me four thousand dollars, but it's top of the line. Mary: What kind is it? John: Twelve-thirty.

Brennan Manning quite courageously admits that 25 years ago, he had a drinking problem. He voluntarily entered a 28-day treatment program. Early on in the treatment program they had to sit in a circle with a leader and tell the truth to themselves, and to the other people in the group, about the extent…

From the Reader's Digest: A Mafia Godfather hires a deaf bookkeeper, because a deaf bookkeeper can't hear anything he might have to testify about in court. The Godfather finds out his bookkeeper cheated him out of 10 million bucks. The Godfather's lawyer knows sign language, and both pay the bookkeeper…

Story told by Gerald Mann... Gerald Mann was a young preacher boy - this all happened about 40 - 50 years ago. Gerald and his wife learned three months after their wedding that she was now pregnant with their first child - months later a precious daughter was born. She was beautiful, she was tender and…

There was an elderly man and his hard of hearing wife traveling from Memphis to Nashville. The trip was progressing along fine until they began having car trouble. Pulling into the nearest gas station the mechanic struck up a conversation with the old man. "Where are you headed?" asked the mechanic "Nashville."…

“Speak Up in Prayer” A little boy was kneeling beside his bed with his mother and grandmother and softly saying his prayers, "Dear God, please bless Mummy and Daddy and all the family and please give me a good night's sleep." Suddenly he looked up and shouted, "And don't forget to give me a bicycle for…

In contrast to the stance many of us take from time to time, one of the biographers of Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, “When a temporary illness lays him on his back, he writes in bed one of his most careful and thoughtful papers, the discourse on ‘The Technical Elements in Style.’ When ophthalmia confines…

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our consciences, but shouts to us in our pain: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” I have often wondered about those words of C.S. Lewis. Whatever else they may mean, they have come to mean this to me: that when he speaks thus, it is to rouse…

After he became a telegrapher, Edison discovered his deafness did not prevent him from hearing the clicking of the telegraph instrument and he became an especially rapid operator, for normal distractions did not bother him at all. Once he said to Edward Marshall, “It may be said that I was shut off from…

A number of years ago, in a mental institution just outside Boston, Mass., a young girl known as “Little Annie” was locked in the dungeon. This institution was one of the more enlightened ones for the treatment of the mentally disturbed. However, the doctors felt that a dungeon was the only place for…

Jesus made a powerful statement in the Temple action. Israel generally regarded the Temple’s ruler the true Davidic king. This Temple action was a claim to such royal status by Jesus. Also, in this Temple action, Jesus enacts a symbol. This symbol said that the present system is corrupt. The Temple had…

ABILITY In college we used to sell coupon books door to door, and we used to have a term--- “Create our own reality.” This meant that as soon as someone broke a sales record, it changed our entire outlook on our job. For example; If the record was 20 coupon books in four hours ( atypical workday) and…

From the files of this venerable broadcaster-some startling revelations about history's heroes More of Paul Harvey's Rest of the Story Condensed from "Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story" Paul Aurandt The Little Red Wagon He was born to wealthy parents who hoped for a distinguished ca­reer for their…

To Illustrate... | ConfessionEarly in 1993 British police accused two ten-year-old boys of the brutal murder of two-year-old James Bulger. The two boys pleaded innocence.The young defendants responded to police questioning with noticeable inconsistency. The climax came when the parents of one of the…

Easter season: A family gathers around the holiday table, three generations happily chattering over a festive meal. Mom disappears into the kitchen for more food. Grandma fusses with Junior's bib, as Grandpa winks affectionately at the older kids. But take a closer look: no holiday ham or leg of lamb…