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Touching poem about the importance of family

Use your imagination and consider the situation as it developed in the U. of Kentucky and U. of Georgia football game as few years ago. Time was running out. Kentucky was leading, but Georgia had the ball as the final seconds ticked away. Georgia was in field goal distance for the accurate toe of their…

Did you ever know a boy without an excuse? I never did. I think I never knew a girl either. We all make excuses readily enough. But those rough, surly pedagogues always answered the boy’s idle apologies by giving the offender an extra stroke of the whip for daring to impose upon his guardian. That is…

THE LORD'S PRAYER (Could be a skit for worship) Rather cleverly done. This is in two parts, The Prayer (in blue or black type) and GOD (in red type) in response. It is very, very good. ********** Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Yes? Don't interrupt me. I'm praying. But -- you called ME! Called you? No,…

If we had accomplished obedience for twenty years, yet still, if in the next year we broke the law, we would come under its curse. A thief is not excused because he was honest beforehand, nor a murderer because previously he had not shed blood. A Methuselah would be under the law in his nine hundredth…

There are some who make a bad use of what ought to be a great blessing—namely, the printing press, and the printed sermon—by staying at home to read a sermon because, they say, it is better than going out to hear one. It is a bad example for a professing Christian to absent himself from the assembly…

It was said of the Persians that, whenever they went to battle, you could hear the sticks of the captains who were beating the soldiers to make them fight, but they won no victories. Look, on the other hand, at the brave Spartan. He was glad at the very thought of fighting; he lived in it. He was a born…

It has been more than 30 years since President Clinton’s misconduct with a 24-year-old intern in the oval office. Recently he explained in a documentary on Hillary Clinton that he began his affair with Monica Lewinsky as a way “to manage my anxieties.” The Week, March 20, 2020 p. 6 The Biblical cure…

Police pulled over a Louisiana driver for expired license plates. The man admitted he had been putting it off for a while. Actually, he had put it off for 23 years that is how far out of date his registration was. He gave the officer his excuse, “I’ve been busy lately and totally forgot to renew my vehicle…

When Stephen A. Smith came under fire for his insensitive remarks about Major League Baseball pitching and hitting phenomenon Shohei Ohtani, he did not make excuses. Instead, he said, “I was wrong, period.” As a black man, Smith has been on the other side of racism and is an outspoken critic of racist…

Rachel Nichols of Richmond, Missouri tells of her fourth grader who was on crutches on his birthday. He was unable to carry cupcakes into the school without some help. She asked Noah, her sixth grader if he could help his brother carry the cupcakes. “I could,” he said, “but I’d prefer not to.” Rachel’s…

When police arrested 45-year-old Nicole Mintner in Florida for driving under the influence she had an interesting defense. She demanded that police release her on the grounds that “Jesus drank wine and so did I.” Nicole later confessed to having also taken Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication not mentioned…

Love and care of family is an important responsibility for parents. We are to take care of the children entrusted to US. That does not give us excuse to disregard the rest of society. Lou Munilla moved from California to Idaho when California passed a law that virtually all school children are to be…

Bruce McConville, a 55 year-old Canadian businessman, from Ottawa, Canada, used a very creative excuse to avoid paying his wife spousal and child support, as part of their divorce settlement—he burnt it! He told a judge in the Ottawa Supreme Court that he withdrew 1 Million Canadian Dollars ($750,000),…

U.S. women’s soccer player Ashlyn Harris tweeted about another soccer player Joelene Hinkle. Hinkle decided not to join the American women’s soccer team because of requirements to wear an LGBT pride jersey. Harris told Hinkle, “Our team is about inclusion, you wouldn’t fit in.” World Magazine August…

After the summit with President Trump failed to produce an agreement, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un blamed four of his top officials. It’s not good to be blamed for failure in North Korea. The North Korean leader had the officials executed. According to reports, the Dear Leader also demoted his right-hand…

In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos is the main supervillain. His goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones that he places on his gauntlet. Once he obtains all six infinity stones, he will have the ability to wipe out half existence in the entire universe. His home planet was overpopulated and depleted…

Prosecutors charged Aleksey Germash with “delaying or detaining mail” when they discovered 17,000 pieces of mail in his car, apartment and locker at work. His defense was that he “made sure to deliver the important mail.” —Jim L. Wilson http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/officials-postal-worker-hoarded-17k-pieces-mail-54622326…

One stormy Texas afternoon rodeo clown Casey Wagner was riding the storm out under a tree. Lightning struck the tree and gave Casey quite a shock. Supposedly lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place so Casey stayed where he was thinking he’d be safe. Sure enough, lightning struck a second time.…

Tequila Isaacson is an Idaho woman who was traveling on a Washington State highway. She was at a rest stop when a Pickup truck in the parking lot next to a coffee shop caught on fire. While the boy’s parents worked to get him out and another man called 911, Isaacson began searching for a fire extinguisher.…

As if they needed it, evolutionists have given women who have affairs an excuse. It is ultimately because evolution has biologically programmed her for infidelity. This is the claim of a recent research paper in which “researchers propose that evolution has predisposed women to seek out additional partners…

A month and a half after Election Day in 2016, Joe Chandler, from Georgia, is refusing to find out who won the presidential election. He says that on the day after the vote he woke up feeling happy and relaxed and decided not to ruin the mood by seeing the election result. So, for 6 weeks he has avoided…

In an attempt to attract more women, the regional authorities in southern Taiwan have built a church in the shape of a massive high-heeled shoe. The shape of the building is a poor excuse for going to church. Further investigation discovers it is a government building designed to bring brides to the…

In “Life Beyond the Law,” Daryl Watts writes, “As my six-year-old daughter’s birthday party approached, I tried to coach her on how to be gracious about gifts. Even as a young child, she already had a reputation for brutal honesty. I asked her, “What do you say if you get a gift you don’t like?” She…

Toxic workers may be tolerated by their managers if they are high-performers, but they tend to make life difficult for everyone. One study showed that they create larger than normal turnover when their fellow employees leave, which generates increased training costs for the company. --Jim L. Wilson and…