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There is the story of a preacher who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still in your pockets. ------------------------------------------------- While driving…

Monday, August 20, 2007 FOOTBALL QUOTES Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior…

“From the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born from Hebrews.” Paul shakes out the whole lot for the dogs, and is glad to be rid of it all for Christ’s sake. It reminds me of a ship in a storm. When the captain leaves the harbor he has a cargo on board of which he takes great care,…

If I am a child of God, I learn to trust my Father. I do not know a more delightful act of childhood than trustfulness in a parent. And how often if we trust God we shall be rewarded! Yesterday, I received a note from one of the trustees of the orphanage to say that the running account was so low that,…

A Virginia sheriff’s department said a family who turned in two large mail bags filled with cash they found in the middle of the road deserved praise. The Schantz family said they were driving and ran over one of the bags. They thought it was full of trash and noticed another bag in a nearby ditch. They…

Actor Rob Gough paid $5.2 million for a piece of cardboard in January 2021. Well, that’s one way to put it. Another way is to say that he bought a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition with a PSA 9 rating—1 of 6 known to be in existence. "I always dreamt of owning a 1952 Topps Mickey…

Waste collection workers in Ohio were able to find and return $25,000 cash that a family accidentally threw away while helping their grandmother clean her home. Officials said they got a call from the family when they realized the money had accidentally been thrown in the trash just before the truck…

When Howard Kirby noticed a firm area in the thrift store couch he bought for his man cave he tried to discover and fix the problem. The “problem” turned out to be $43,170 in cash. Even though an attorney said he could legally keep the money, Kirby reached out to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso,…

Parisa Dudley said she believes her son learned important lessons when he returned an envelope of lost cash to the owner. Dudley said her son Foster found a bank envelope with $900 at a department store. There was a receipt from a local credit union along with a person’s name and signature. Dudley asked…

Six-year-old Daphne Kenny found a surprise in the cereal aisle that made her trip to grocery extra special. While she, her sister, and mother were shopping Daphne pulled a piece of paper from the shelf beside a box of cereal. Her mother thought it might be someone’s grocery list, but it turned out to…

Jamaican hurdler Hansel Parchment may not have won a gold medal in Tokyo, if a stranger had not intervened. Parchment took the wrong bus on the day of his event. He was listening to music, when he looked up and realized the bus was going the wrong way and he had no idea where he was. In a social media…

A British man who started to build a deck in yard during coronavirus lockdown made an unexpected discovery while digging. The man found someone had buried an entire car in the yard years earlier. John Brayshaw bought the home six months earlier and was digging post panels for a deck, when he found the…

George Condash did the right thing when he discovered a box of cash outside his credit union—he turned it in. As it turned out, a security guard left it behind when servicing the ATM. The Credit Union did give him a reward for his good deed, but Alicia Stewart, the bank’s cash manager told reporters…

When Long Island railroad conductor Jerry Savino was walking through one of the cars on his train, he noticed a large folder on the overhead rack of the train. Concerned that it might contain something dangerous, Savino opened the envelope and found a wad of 90 new $100 bills. He found paperwork with…

A man who accidentally threw a shoebox containing $23,000 into a recycling bin was relieved to get his money back. The man did not realize his mistake until the recycling bin had already been emptied into truck headed for the processing facility. He contacted the facility’s manager who advised workers…

More than 30 years after his father died, an Oklahoma man paid tribute to his father by tracking down and buying a Dodge Challenger that his father previously owned. Bobbie Bohnsak was eight years old when his father died in an accident. He shared his father’s name and as he grew also shared his father’s…

An Arizona police officer went beyond the call of duty to help an elderly woman who had been scammed and abandoned in the Phoenix area. Officer Adam Walicke met the woman at a department store where she had been sitting for almost a full day. She told Walicke that she had spent the last of her money…

A New Jersey man who cleans homes to supplement his income shared the story of how he accidentally went to a townhouse and left it spotless. Louis Angelino said he often cleans homes for friends to make extra money and was schedule to clean the home for his friend Mark. He arrived and found the key in…

When Richard Taverna found a purse by a wall on a New York subway platform, he was surprised by what he found inside. At first glance, he saw some paper with Russian writing on it, but when he looked closer, he found a hundred $100 bills. When he took the purse to police the following morning, Taverna…

The owners of a Michigan butcher shop were horrified when they realized they had misplaced an envelope containing all the day’s receipts. Tim Sobie, owner of Sobie Meats said he and his wife were frantically searching for the misplaced deposit bag after they dropped it somewhere inside or outside the…

Les Bernal is the national director of the nonprofit organization, Stop Predatory Gambling. All but six states sponsor a state lottery with a goal that is often getting more people to play or extracting larger sums of money from dedicated fans. “An enormous amount of their profits comes from people who…

Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…

Bloomfield Colorado police officer Carolyn Becker has a special connection to a young man she has never met and has found ways to go above and beyond the call of duty to help him. Becker had wanted to help someone by being a live organ donor. She inquired about one person, but was not a suitable match.…

Sanitation workers in the Philippines found dozen of wallets blocking the flow of water through a drain. They contained credit cards and IDs, but not one of them contained any money. Video taken at the scene shows the workers removing the wallets and laying out the items inside including credit cards…

An old painting hanging in the kitchen of an elderly French woman made her a multimillionaire. The women did not think the painting was worth much, but when an auctioneer saw it, he suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. The painting turned out to be a rare masterpiece from 13th-century…