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If the first half (of Life) was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.”

Here's a message that will bring you chills. Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?" Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?" A missionary on furlough told this true story while…

Do you remember the story of Desert Pete’s Pump? A rundown shack stood beside a seldom used trail in the California desert. Nearby was a well, the only source of water for miles around. At tin can was tied to the pump with a string. Inside was a message written on a piece of brown wrapping paper with…

I will never forget Ted Stone

I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

Perhaps there is a wife whose husband has accepted an appointment in India. He has been long away, and the years of his forced absence have been weary to her. She has had loving messages from him and kind letters, but often has she sighed, and her heart has looked out of the windows toward the east,…

When traveling among the Alps in a dense mist, we have seemed to see vast lakes without a shore, crags that appeared like the battlements of heaven, and awful depths that thrilled us with horror. Yet much of that mystery was only caused by the mist. When we journeyed the same way on a bright morning,…

When a king is journeying through a foreign country, he does not wear his crown or the rest of his regalia; he often travels incognito. Even when he reaches his own country, he does not put on his royal robes for fools to admire at every village fair. He is not a puppet king, strutting upon the stage…

All things here pass away. I cannot tell you the strange joy I felt after the earthquake at Menton, France. I had been to see many of the houses that had been shaken down, and the two churches that were greatly injured, and I was full of the earthquake. I had quite realized its terrors and its power,…

If one had to be a soldier on the field of battle, it might be a very great assistance to one’s courage to stand side by side with the hero of a thousand fights who had always been victorious. If you had to journey tonight along some dark and lonely road, and an angel came from heaven to walk beside…

Anthony Farindon says Paul’s dilemma in Phil 1:23–24 is like a poor beggar woman outside the door who carries a squalling child. Someone says to her, “You may come in and feast, but you must leave the baby outside.” She is very hungry, and she wants the feast, but she does not like to leave the baby,…

Remember that the safety of the weak and of the strong believer rests upon the same foundation. On board one of the fine steamboats that flit between England and America there is a strong, hardy, vigorous man. Will he get to America safely? Yes, if the ship does. But yonder is a little child that cannot…

In the dark and dreadful night, the destroying angel is let loose, with noiseless wings, and with a sharp sword that never misses its mark. He is speeding from house to house throughout all the land of Egypt, and from the firstborn of Pharaoh upon the throne to the firstborn of the slave woman behind…

In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But this is okay.…

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The Colorado Peaches plays softball with a purpose. "Our purpose is to empower senior women to grow physically, mentally and spiritually by contributing time and effort developing camaraderie in the spirit of play." Their team has members in their 90’s playing on it. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/10/27/Colorado-Peaches-oldest-softball-team/1391635365673/…

Jackie wore the same shirt to her company’s zoom meetings during the pandemic. She knew that someone would say something, but they didn’t—not even when she finally broke down and said something about it herself on her final day of work. No one had noticed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-hawaiian-shirt-264-times-zoom-meetings_n_60d387f0e4b06005129e14a9…

A wildlife camera in California captured footage of a mother bald eagle keeping her eggs warm while covered in several inches of snow. The Nest Cam in Big Bear was set up by a wildlife group can shows a bald eagle, nicknamed Jackie covered in three or four inches of fresh snow as she tended to her eggs.…

When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…

A library in Nova Scotia said a book checked out in 1939 was returned 82 years overdue after a homeowner found it hidden away in his attic. The homeowner was renovating his home and found the copy of The Adventures of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting. Library officials said they were intrigued because…

Reindeer are designed to survive the extremes of the Artic. “As they roam, they look for patches of lichen or moss to dig up from beneath the Artic snow.” A reindeer-nerd notes, “Somehow the reindeer doesn’t even mind the cold weather.” Many of these animals are no longer entirely wild. “The Sami people…

Scientists released the first images from the Solar Orbiter and discovered something previously unknown about our sun. The pictures were taken from 48 million miles away and showed vibrant swirls of yellow and dark smoky gray. The pictures were so detailed, scientist created a new vocabulary to name…

A Greek student decided that the best way to get back home was to ride a bicycle after flights were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kleon Papadimitriou was studying at the University of Aberdeen and was not able to book a flight home to Athens, so researched the possibility of riding a bicycle…

# Philippians Lesson 1 ## Intro to the Study of Philippians I’ve been given the privilege of teaching the opening weeks of this study through the book of Philippians. Before we get to the text of Philippians I am going to take a few minutes to refresh your memory of the background of the Philippian churches…

Claire Culwell dedicated her web site, http://www.claireculwell.com to telling her story. When she was 21 years old, Claire Culwell discovered a huge secret about her past: her biological mom had tried to have an abortion when she was pregnant with Claire and her twin. While Claire’s twin didn’t survive,…