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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…

HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW. > > Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood > and always has something positive to say: When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. > > If an employee…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

~~~ 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…

Have you never seen a canvas upon which the hand of the painter has sketched with daring pencil some marvelous scene of grandeur? You see where the living color has been laid on with an almost superhuman skill. But the artist was suddenly struck dead, and the hand that worked miracles of art was palsied…

Some preachers remind me of the emperor who had a wonderful skill in carving men’s heads upon cherry stones. What a multitude of preachers we have who can make wonderfully fine discourses out of a mere passing thought, of no consequence to anyone. But we want the gospel. We have to live and die, and…

You know with what heart soldiers have trusted their commanders. They have gone into the fight and been outnumbered, but they have felt that their leader was so skillful in war, and so sure to win, that they have remained undaunted under terrible attacks, and their battalions have stood firm as iron…

A man takes a mass of metal. It appears to you very pure, and very beautiful to look at. It is alloyed. He puts it into his refining pot, he heats the coals, and he begins to stir it. You say to him, “What are you doing? You are spoiling that precious metal. See how foul the surface is! What a scum floats…

A minister, preaching upon the text, “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there?” (Jer 8:22) made the remark that Christ is a good Physician. “Christ is not like those doctors who come and say they are sorry for you, whereas in their hearts they are glad you are ill, for if you and others…

Napoleon is a struggling teenager in the now classic namesake film, “Napoleon Dynamite.” In an interaction which has since become the source of many internet memes, when he finds out his new friend Pedro is asking a girl out on a date, Napoleon laments his own lack of the “skills” that a girlfriend might…

12-year-old Boy Scout David King and his mother were on their way home from a 15-mile hike near his home, when they met a couple lost on the trail and trying to help their dog, Smokey. King asked if they needed anything, and the couple explained they were out of water, their phones were dead, and Smokey’s…

Jesse Johnson of the Las Cruces, NM Fire Department answered a call on March 28, 2021, to help an Albertson’s shopper. The shopper left the windows of his car down as he ran into the store to buy a few things. As he was driving away, he discovered that he had a few unwanted passengers aboard—there were…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “AIVA Technologies, a Luxembourg start-up, has created AI software that composes jazz, pop, and classical music that is being used in soundtracks for films, video…

When the pandemic began in March 2020, Aaron Reichert, owner of Krank’s Cycle had some tough decisions to make. His business made money renting bicycles to tourists staying in local hotels. When the hotels were empty, Reichert decided to begin going door to door to repair bicycles. His crew also began…

Ree Drummond, the quite famous “Pioneer Woman” blogger, turned author, turned television icon, describes how her success is rooted in the reality that she, “wrote about and cooked things for which I had a great passion…. It definitely shows in the finished product.” On television, and in her cookbooks…

A 1,400 square-foot home in New York state is billed as the first 3D printed home in the United States. The three-bedroom, 2 bath home with detached garage is listed at just under $300,000. It was built by a company called SQ4D and used a massive 3D printer on site to create each piece of the home using…

One of the keys to a marriage’s survival is effective communication skills. Communication is not completed until the recipient receives the message intended by the sender. A woman in India has filed for divorce from her husband because his communication is being received differently than he intends.…

Researchers from the Ford Automotive Company said they giving McDonald’s coffee bean chaff new life as car parts. Chaff is the waste left over after the roasting process, and Ford researchers say it can be used to make headlight housings and other automotive components. The auto manufacturer heats the…

In March, 2019 two doctors from a hospital in Papua New Guinea spoke at a church in the United States telling the congregation about a critical need for teachers in their school for missionary children. Though neither had ever been on a mission trip, except for a brief trip to Mexico or Canada, Kathy…

Nina Harris told her husband Allan exactly what she wanted for Valentine’s Day. “I would like some tulips,” she said. Allan was not listening, at least that is what Nina says. When she finished her first cup of coffee on St. Valentine’s Day, Allan gave her the Valentine’s Day gift he thought she ordered.…

There is mounting evidence that time spent on Smartphones can interfere with sleep, self esteem, relationships, memory, attention span, creativity and decision making skills. New evidence suggests they may also raise levels of cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. Cortisol is the primary fight-or…

Matt Gerdisch keeps a 5-month old, friendly doe named Abigail in an enclosure on his property, because he runs an animal rescue in Kane County, Illinois. But recently there was a terrible storm that hit the area causing significant damage to the animal sanctuary, giving the baby doe the chance to run…

The Camp Fire reduced Paradise, CA to ashes. Jeff McClenahan, a 53-year-old college professor, returned to his home in Paradise and “found it destroyed, burned to the foundation.” As he stared in disbelief, he dropped to his knees and sobbed, “Its stuff. But it’s a lot of history. Everything, our whole…

As he prepared to graduate with an aviation degree, Gavin Becker decided to use his piloting skills to propose to his girlfriend. He used a snow blower to carve a giant message in the snow on a frozen lake. He wrote the words “Marry Me” surrounded by an oversized heart and offered to take his longtime…

Game Warden Josey Branch from Oklahoma responded to a report of an elk with its antlers entangled in a cotton bale tarp, electric fence, and barbed wire fence. Since he could not get close to the animal, Branch used his rifle to shoot off the animal’s antlers above the bases and then shoot the wire and…