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In Frozen, Olaf dreamed about experiencing the warmth of summer. The audience entered his daydream as he sang about all the wonderful things he has heard about the season. He sang about picking dandelions from the lawn, laying on the beach under an umbrella, riding in a canoe on a lake, going for a swim,…

According to the Transportation Security Administration, “Virtually all passengers wait less than 30 minutes in standard checkpoint lines, and 99.6% of TSA PreCheck members waited less than 10 minutes in line.” However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t exceptions. Merinda Edmonds has PreCheck status, her…

The personal finance guru in The New York Times, Carl Richards, has an interesting suggestion for staying out of debt, or at least lowering it significantly. His suggestion is to pay for the item first, by putting the money aside in a savings account. If you can’t wait to save up for the whole amount,…

The city of Santa Teresa, New Mexico has pumped millions of dollars into the state’s economy. The border-crossing, port-of-entry has streets lined with warehouses filled with goods of every kind. The city remains unincorporated, and though there are plenty of buildings, the city lacks shops, cafes, gas…

In an attempt to make their neighborhood a safer place to live, Bradley and Penny Mason purchased a vacant house adjacent to their home because they feared it was a fire hazard. As it turns out, they were right. As they were at the county courthouse signing the deed, the house caught fire. A neighbor…

When Youth Pastor Stephen Spencer asked the youth group to write down their life goals, he had no idea how significant the words would be. During a regular Friday evening meeting, Spencer challenged the young people to write down three life goals. He joined in the activity and wrote his goals on a yellow…

The staff at a funeral home in Mississippi says Walter Williams woke up and surprised them. Authorities say the local coroner examined Williams about 9 PM and pronounced him dead because he had no pulse. When William’s body was taken to a local funeral home later than night, workers were getting ready…

Speaking to a group of college students in the Spring of 2013, former New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, told the crowd that regardless of what happens with his career, his main goal is to impact lives, whether he is on or off the field. Regardless of the controversy that surrounds him, a survey taken…

On February 13, 2013, over 4,000 people gathered to mourn a Riverside, California officer killed in a shooting rampage by Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer. Michael Crain, described as a model officer, also had a father's heart, coaching his young son's baseball team and dancing…

As the nation watched and prayed, the 2012 fires devastated the Community of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Though he was not immediately impacted, the President of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, who lives in the area, had an opportunity to reflect on what it mean if he and his family had to evacuate suddenly.…

Australian billionaire Clive Porter has announced plans to build the Titanic II, a modern version of the infamous ocean liner. Porter says, “It is going to be designed so it won’t sink.” That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? --The Week, May 11, 2012, p. 6 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…

People use a lot of different methods to predict the outcome of events like the Super Bowl. Some use a logical approach, examining season records, reviewing games, and talking with friends. Others rely on less convention methods, such as taking advice from a camel. Princess the camel lives at New Jersey’s…

Laser experts are reporting that they have succeeded in building a camera that can see around corners. “Eventually there’s no reason why this shouldn’t be on your iPhone someday,” according to Andreas Velten of the Morgridge Institute for Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon…

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…

A White Christmas for North Carolina in 2010 meant a little extra money in the wallets of customers of a Wilmington jewelry store. The owner of Perry’s Emporium, Alan Perry promised to refund the cost of jewelry purchased at his store between November 26 and December 11th, if Ashville got more than three…

James warns his readers about being presumptuous about tomorrow. We don’t know that we will have a tomorrow. On April 14, 2018 astronomers in Arizona spotted a warehouse size asteroid headed toward a close encounter with our home planet. There was no time to prepare as the asteroid passed the earth the…

George Steinbrenner was once quoted saying “I will never have a heart attack, I give them” Sadly, George’s life ended due to cardiac arrest on July 11th 2010 -- http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2010/07/i_will_never_have_a_heart_atta.html ; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dexter-rogers/george-steinbrenner-dies_b_645891.html…

Robert Jones from Atlanta, Georgia was in South Carolina on business when he decided to go for a run on the beach. Later he was planning to head home to celebrate his daughters third birthday with her, his wife, and their other child. Donning his iPod and running along, an airplane making an emergency…

In Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a relentless God, Francis Chan writes “Stan [Gerlach] was giving a eulogy at a memorial service when he decided to share the gospel. At the end of his message, Stan told the mourners, ‘You never know when God is going to take your life. At that moment, there’s nothing you…

Burke O’Connell had the words “Super Bowl 50” and “Champs” tattooed on his calf along with his team’s logo. Unfortunately, he got the celebratory tattoo two days before his team, the New England Patriots lost to the Denver Broncos for the AFC Championship title. There would be no Super Bowl for the Patriots.…

A Phoenix area man bought a watch for $6 at a Goodwill store and then resold it for $35,000. Zach Norris said he saw the watch and realized it was a rare driving watch and that only 900 of them had ever been made. He sold the watch on a collector’s website and then donated some of the profit back to…

There's a Hasidic story about a rabbi who crossed a village square every morning on his way to the temple to pray. One morning, a large Russian Cossack soldier, who happened to be in a vile mood, accosted him, saying, "Hey, rabbi, where are you going?" The rabbi simply said, "I don't know." This infuriated…

In the early years of Nolan Ryan's American League pitching career (remember, the Mets had him and let him go) Ryan was called on one day to pitch against the Detroit Tigers. An All-Star leadoff man was sent to the plate to bat against Ryan. He got to see three pitches, missed all of them and dutifully…

In a home of which I know, a little boy—the only son—was ill with an incurable disease. Month after month the mother had tenderly nursed him, read to him, and played with him, hoping to keep him from realizing the dreadful finality of the doctor’s diagnosis. But as the weeks went on and he grew no better,…