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How’d You Live Your Dash? > > I read of a man who stood to speak > At the funeral of a friend > He referred to the dates on her tombstone > From the beginning...to the end. > > He noted that first came her date of birth > And spoke the following date with tears, > But he said what mattered most of all…

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5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

~~~ Here's to Mom! ~~~ My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE WHAT I HAVE - "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going to kill each other…

I have sometimes thought of the contrast between the poor man’s funeral and the rich man’s funeral. When the poor man dies, his sons and daughters weep with real distress, for the death of the father brings sadness and sympathy into that house. The poor man is to be buried, but it can only be managed…

Communion Order taken largely from a Communion Liturgy published by R. Kent Hughes. (Hughes, R. Kent. The Pastor's Book (pp. 447-449). Crossway.)

The denominations of the Christian church are very like the divisions of a plowed field by means of furrows that mark the surface, but the land remains to all intents and purposes one field. I do not speak of mere professing Christians, but truly spiritual people. Such are all one in Christ Jesus, and…

The birds go flying through the orchard, and they do not say a word to one another till they come to a cherry tree where the cherries are very sweet and ripe. Then they all fall to at once and begin to peck away with all their might. So nobody says much of an ordinary Christian who is doing little for…

I saw the other day a remarkable picture, which I shall use as an illustration of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus. An offender had committed a crime for which he must die, but it was in the olden time when churches were considered to be sanctuaries in which criminals might hide themselves and…

If I send a petition to a man’s door, and then having earnestly asked, or pretended to ask earnestly, I am utterly careless about the answer, I have not treated the man respectfully. If that person should send me a letter in return to my request, and I should not even take the trouble to open it, how…

There once was a lady who wanted to hire a driver. When three applied, she had them in one by one. “Well,” said she to the first, “How near can you drive to danger?” “Madam,” said he, “I believe I could drive within a foot without fear.” “You will not do for me,” said she. To the second she said, “How…

It is not possible that any sin should ever be forgiven to any man without shedding of blood. This has been known from the very first. As soon as man had sinned, God taught him that he needed a sacrifice. Adam and Eve, after they had sinned, tried to clothe themselves with fig leaves, but that was not…

Old Hugh Latimer preached before Henry VIII. It was the custom of the court preacher to present the king with something on his birthday, and Latimer presented Henry VIII with a pocket handkerchief with this text in the corner: “God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers” (Heb 13:4)—a very…

When the bridge opened, officials inadvertently dropped a “z” from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge resulting in 96 signs having the misspelled name. In 2018, New York Governor Cuomo signed a bill allowing the addition of the dropped “z” to the signs, correcting the error. Why make the change after all…

After viewing a viral video of a police officer joining Florida teens in a street basketball game, Shaquille O'Neal, former MVP basketball player and reserve police officer, joined some officers and the youth in a rematch game. Before leaving, he gave the kids some advice: "You know how much money I…

We choose strange ways to honor others. Steve Jenne believes he is honoring former president Richard Nixon. When he was 14 years old, in 1960, he was serving as a Boy Scout honor guard when Nixon visited his hometown of Sullivan, Illinois. Nixon took a few bites of a barbequed buffalo sandwich. When…

On leap day 2020, twenty-nine couples tied the knot at two twenty-nine p.m. in Hell, Michigan, a small town 20 miles outside Ann Arbor. The Rev. Yvonne Williams officiated the mass ceremony. The ceremony was short and sweet, less than 10 minutes, and was held outside the town’s chapel. Couples had to…

Akitoshi Okamoto, a 71-year-old Japanese man, was arrested recently for apparently calling a phone company 24,000 times to complain. He was taken into custody for inundating KDDI Corporation’s customer service department with toll-free phone calls over an eight-day period. Apparently, he wanted an apology…

In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Don’t see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use this mess for something good.” You’ll Get Through This, page 55 Hebrews…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “Whether Democrat or Republican, those surveyed respected Amazon more than the FBI, universities, Congress, the press, the courts, and religion. That perhaps helps…

When the pandemic began, many experts predicted it would have a negative impact on relationships and lead to more break ups and divorces. Susan Albers, a psychologist with the Cleveland Clinic said the actual results have been more mixed. Albers said for couples experiencing a lot of tension before the…

A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Brownsville Texas welcomed a duck when it chose to nest in their parking lot. The establishment used their social media page to report that the duck, named Daisy, was living in the parking lot, and asked guests to say hello, but be respectful of her home. The restaurant posted…

Liang Feng’en was a famous hunter in the Heilongjiang province, China (bordering Russia). "Good hunters enjoyed respect and were even idolized," Liang said. In 1998 China implemented strict environmental protection measures, and in 2000 the Worldwide Fund for Nature's China Office asked him to join their…

A Taiwanese man who happened to get one of the first PlayStation 5 consoles was forced to sell the device when his wife learned he had lied to her, saying the device was an air purifier. The buyer, Jim Wu talked about his experience on social media. Wu said he arranged to meet the seller in purchase…

In June 2009, Asia Bibi and her family were the only Christians living in her small village in eastern Pakistan. Her Muslim neighbors were upset at having to share the village well with non-Muslims and demanded she convert to Islam. She responded, “I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died…