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Be Humble, Be Wise When pride comes, then comes shame; but with the humble is wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 Recommend Reading Proverbs 11 On December 6, 2001, American evangelist Billy Graham received a singular honor from the British Empire. He was given an honorary knighthood in recognition of his Christian…

Billionaire J.B. Pritzker removed five toilets from his second mansion so it would be classified as “uninhabitable,” and as a result the value dropped on “the 6,378-square-foot mansion's assessed value from $6.3 million to about $1.1 million,” which drastically dropped his property tax liability.—Jim…

In 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey writes, “It is character that communicates most eloquently.” —Jim L. Wilson --7 Habits of Highly Effective People, p. 30 Proverbs 11:3 (CSB) The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

When a homeless woman saw Cameron Diaz drop her wallet outside a Beverly Hills restaurant, she immediately attempted to return it to the workers in the restaurant. However, they would not take the wallet from her and asked her to leave. Determined, she stayed outside the restaurant until the police arrived…

StubHub made a mistake, and Jordan Benedict benefited from it. Benedict snatched two Game 2 tickets for the 2017 World Series for $9.00 apiece. Thinking it might be a mistake, Benedict called StubHub. Some would say that was a foolish call, but I view it as an act of integrity. StubHub agreed that it…

Officials with Wells Fargo Bank said they were happy that a Pennsylvania woman did the right thing when an automatic teller machine gave her too much money. Kristina Edwards told a local newspaper that she went to the ATM to withdraw $60. When the machine produced $380, she tried to chase down the customer…

Do you remember the first Mr. Coffee commercials? For more than ten years, Baseball’s Joe DiMaggio stood in front of the cameras lauding the great taste of drip brewed coffee. However, when Mr. DiMaggio wanted to indulge in a hot drink, he fixed himself a cup of instant Sanka. In the mix of things that…

German taxi driver Thomas Gunter dropped off his elderly couple fare at their Wurzburg, Germany home. Later Gunter discovered they had left an envelope containing the equivalent of $335,000 in euro notes. Rather than keeping the money the cab driver returned to the home and returned the package to the…

Scripture calls us to a life of integrity. We are seeing less integrity displayed in the lives of our public figures including politicians, businessmen and athletes. We have given in to moral relativism and thus devalued the meaning of integrity. In sports it is the idea that any rule that seems unnecessary…

An unemployed teacher noticed a bag in the street as she was driving home, so she stopped to see what it was. She doubted it contained anything at all, until she saw the label reading “Chase Bank.” Candice Scott said it looked like a gallon size baggie with a blue zipper on the top. She almost didn’t…

A new study by a private research group has found over half of private small business executives say they expect employees to steal something of value from their company within the next year. The Chubb Private Company Risk Survey asked executive at 451 for-profit companies in the United States. Most…

An unidentified Syrian refugee gave Police in Minden, Germany 150,000 Euros (over $166,000) that he found in a cupboard a charitable organization gave him. While we don’t know who he is, we do know what he is—a man of integrity. Imagine, a man with such great need, finding so much, but having the integrity…

As Super Bowl 44 drew closer, attention focused on the teams involved, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. The Colts had been in the NFL playoffs, numerous times, as had multiple coaches and players. The one constant over the time frame is the team’s chaplain Ken Johnson. Johnson joined…

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose. – William M. Bulger

Many years ago, a great hitter named Paul Waner was nearing the end of his long career. He entered a ballgame with 2,999 hits -- one hit away from the landmark total of 3,000, which so many hitters want to reach, but which relatively few actually do reach. Waner hit a ball that the fielder did not handle…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…