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In an opinion piece in the Times Free Press author Roger Smith comments on the tremendous educational opportunity offered to American children without the accompanying ethical teaching that gives education direction. In the article Smith quotes General Omar Bradley as writing, "We have grasped the mystery…

Joseph Reginella recently erected a fake 250Ib monument to the victims of a ferry disaster at the southern tip of Manhattan. The memorial features an image of a giant octopus pulling down a ferry full of people. Reginella got the idea for the monument when he was telling a fake story to his 11-year-old…

Rick Nelson, 61, was walking his dog near his Ontario home when a 300-pound black bear charged him. The mama bear was only defending her cub but she bit Nelson in the chest and face. Rick had been a featherweight boxer in his earlier days and he struck the beast in the teeth with a right-hand jab, following…

In Facing Your Giants, Max Lucado writes, “How long since you ran toward your challenge? We tend to retreat behind a desk of work or crawl into a nightclub of distraction or a bed of forbidden love. For a moment, a day, or a year, we feel safe, insulated, anesthetized, but then the work runs out, the…

In, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough…

The universe is full of asteroids and comet debris that bombards the planets. The giant planet Jupiter with its gravitational pull acts as a vacuum sucking these potential threats from space. Experts believe that an asteroid crashes into Jupiter as often as once a week. That space cleaning effort is…

The day before Super Bowl XLVI, many New York residents were wondering, what the New York Giants knew that no one else did. For a short time on Saturday, February 4th, 2012, the New York Giants site contained the message that the Giant were the Super Bowl Champions. Ads on the page offered shoppers the…

By Jeremy A. Kaplan Published April 02, 2012 | FoxNews.com A telescope so massive that it spans a continent won't be any better than a pair of binoculars unless you can find a way to carry and sift through its data. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is planet Earth’s next big science project. It won’t…

Background: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It explores the Christian adage: Wise men still seek him. What would it be like if modern seekers were with the wise men when they worshiped Jesus? Higher-Status was the young adult son of a nobleman. He represented the next generation…

I can draw a picture of this from the NFL. Just a few weeks ago, Philadelphia was playing New York. New York came out on fire and jumped to a big lead. I’m sure the Giants were feeling confident that they would win. But then there was an amazing comeback, and the Eagles ties the score. New York got the…

Facing the Giants is about the faith of a high school football coach and how he uses biblical principles to motivate and inspire his team to play winning football while honoring God. In that movie, Coach Taylor has one of his players who is really hard-hearted. His name is Matt Prater. Coach Taylor has…

PURPOSE All Susan ever wanted was a normal life. She planned to marry Derek and live happily ever after. On her wedding day, Susan’s life changed. She is hit by a strange meteorite and is transformed by the powerful element it contains, known as Quantonium. The energetic material turns Susan into a giant.…

CREATION "Finding the remains of microbes or any other trace of life on another world would be the greatest discovery in history and would have profound implications for the human race. As physicist Philip Morrison (a founder of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence radio-telescope project) said,…

It was gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp. The seagulls would flock to this old man, and he would feed them from…

FAITHFULNESS Staying faithful to your convictions is not easy. In the animated motion picture, Horton Hears A Who, Horton the Elephant’s life is changed when he hears a faint cry for help coming from a speck. Consequently, Horton discovers the speck is home to an entire city of people known as Whos.…

LIFE In this email to his former pastor in California, a Naval Officer expresses what facing danger and death is teaching him about life. “Here in Norfolk, it was certainly a hollow feeling that we experienced when the Cole was attacked. Just two months prior to the attack, the Cole was at the next pier…

These are the results of a “Creative Scientific Theories Contest” sponsored several years ago by Omni magazine: GRAND PRIZE WINNER: When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet. And when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the…

Chapter 5 4990 B.C. The Flood–1877 B.C. Joseph 148 Six thousand years had passed since the year of creation. Mankind had slowly multiplied on the earth. Because man had been created with a perfect body, he began with no inherent birth defects. Therefore, the Bible discloses that during this period of…

Greater Faith, 10/5/08 Intro. Praise & Worship Scx: eph 5: 15-21 Title: Blessed anyhow , be wise 15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord…

Every battle you face is preparing you for greater blessings down the road. In 1924, two climbers were part of an expedition that set out to conquer Mount Everest. As far as is known, they never reached the summit; and they never returned. Somewhere on that gigantic mountain they were overpowered by…

RESURRECTION Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. —John 5:25 5020 Raleigh’s Trust After Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in the tower they found in his Bible these true and striking lines, written…

Changing Culture- Tim Keller Some seem to have risen to the challenge of effective ministry in a changing culture. Who can we learn from? I am actually a bit reluctant to lift anyone up high as a shining example—including Redeemer Presbyterian. Let me put it like this: John Stott at All Souls Church…

God Is Not Dead Yet How current philosophers argue for his existence. William Lane Craig | posted 7/03/2008 10:50AM You might think from the recent spate of atheist best-sellers that belief in God has become intellectually indefensible for thinking people today. But a look at these books by Richard Dawkins,…

To Illustrate SUPPOSED RUIN GRATITUDE SINFUL HABITS F rom July to October 1987, dozens of fires scorched more than 1.2 million acres of Yellow­stone National Park, des­troying forest land in approximately half the park. To many watching television across the na­tion, this was a total disaster. But not…

SIN Authorities in Uganda continue their efforts to control the recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus. They fear the disease may spread into neighboring Kenya through seven relatives of a woman who recently died from the virus. Sadly, this same woman unknowingly spread the virus when she fled a hospital…