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When you come to your table you find a variety there. Sometimes there is one dish upon it, and sometimes another, but you are never at all surprised to find the bread there every time. And perhaps we might add that there would be a deficiency if there were not salt there every time too. So there are…

The Moravian missionaries to Greenland thought they should first instruct the Greenlanders in the doctrine of the Trinity. So they preached away to them of the Godhead, but the Greenlanders did not care about it. One of them, while interpreting the third chapter of John, came across that blessed passage,…

What’s a pair of sneakers worth? In April of 2021, “Auction company Sotheby's announced on Monday that Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototype shoes have sold for a record-breaking $1.8 million through a private sale to sneaker investing platform RARES.” https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2021/04/26/Kanye-West-Nike-Air-Yeezy-auction-Sothebys/1851619448461/…

On the border of Germany and Denmark lives a little old man and woman who are very much in love. Trouble is, one of them lives on each side of the border. Since their countries were locked down and the border closed, they have been unable to visit each other. Yet everyday Inga Rasmussen, 85 drives from…

In Toledo, Ohio KC Ahlers’ son was born with a rare medical condition. In a desperate attempt to raise money for medical care he posted a flyer near a mall asking for donations. Someone posted a sign next to the flyer that read: “Stop asking for money. Let the baby die. It’s called Darwinism. Happy Holidays.”…

Skirmantas Strimaitis was ticketed to fly from Vilnius, Lithuania to Bergamo, Italy for a ski outing. When he arrived at the airport he learned he was the only passenger on the 188-seat airplane. The plane’s crew outnumbered him seven to one; nevertheless, he made the two-hour-plus flight as the only…

In the article, “Why did Wikipedia succeed while other encyclopedias failed?” Megan Garber writes about certain factors led to Wikipedia’s success, including familiarity, user-friendliness, and an easy access to participation. Unlike other professional encyclopedias, Wikipedia depends on its users for…

On July 20, 2018, the Walt Disney Company fired film director James Gunn – the director of two very popular movies based on the Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel comic book property – from their employment due to a series of offensive jokes he posted on his Twitter account in 2008 and 2009, posts he apologized…

Most of the time, the value of an item is determined by the price someone is willing to pay for it. Believe it or not, Golden Goose, a clothing brand from Italy is selling distressed shoes, complete with the equivalent of duct tape wrapped around it, for $530.00 Amazing! Why would anyone pay so much…

Jacqueline Ades, 31, went on a date, just one date, with a man she fell for. Unfortunately it didn’t fall both ways and Ades began to stalk and harass her former date. When she was finally arrested she had sent him more than 65,000 text messages. When questioned about it she agreed that the number of…

On a routine call in September, Albuquerque police officer Ryan Holets noticed a man and woman doing heroin behind a convenience store. The woman was not only injecting a needle into her companion's arm, she was also eight months pregnant. As Holets warned her of the damage she was doing to her baby,…

A new study from the University of Vermont suggests eating hot peppers can help you live longer. In the study, researchers looked at the health and diet data of more than 16,000 Americans for nearly 19 years. They discovered that “those who regularly ate hot peppers were 13 percent less likely to die…

A hospital in Barrie, Ontario has apologized for an advertisement on their parking garage gate for cancer patients. Cancer patients entering the cancer ward for treatment saw the ad for the funeral home. A patient with cancer needs to see and hear words that are uplifting, not an appeal for their service…

Jeni Stepien is a Pennsylvania schoolteacher who was recently married. The man who walked her down the aisle and gave her away had her dad’s heart. He received it as a heart donor recipient when Jeni’s father was murdered ten years ago. After Arthur Thomas received the heart in 2006, they kept in touch.…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.…

67-year old Sabine Moreau intended to drive 80 miles to Brussels. The Belgian woman programed her car-navigation system and set out. Six countries and 1800 miles later she drove into Zagreb, Croatia. It was then she realized that she missed her turn somehow. Once she realized she was lost, she found…

ETERNITY Ray Kurzweil is described as a futurist and inventor. At age 65 his goal is to live long enough that he will still be alive when the contents of our brains will be able to be downloaded to a computer. Then he can upload his intelligence, experience, and identity to the internet allowing him…

Two recent news stories remind me that love can be fickle. When a newlywed wife called 911to report her husband missing during their Florida honeymoon, police told her that he had been arrested for attempting to hire a prostitute. A Washington state family returned home to find a burglar in their home.…

In March 2012, Jim Isray, the Colts' owner, released his one-time golden boy, Peyton Manning, from the team. Why? Because Peyton had a neck surgery and he might not be able to play as well as in the past. In case you don't know Peyton, he was one of the top QBs in the league history and he earned 4 MVP…

Dakoda Garren used coins from a collection valued at over a hundred thousand dollars, spending them at face value, to purchase movie tickets and buy a pizza for himself and his girlfriend Elizabeth Massman. According to police, “One of the coins was a Liberty quarter worth between $1,100 and $18,500.”…

The flexibility of commerce on the internet makes it possible for companies to offer highly customized goods at prices that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. You can get M&Ms printed with a personal message. Everything from printed T-shirts to customized dress shirts is available through…

Wellington R. Burt hated his family. When he died, in 1919, his will stipulated that his estate was to be held until his last grandchild was dead for 21 years. That child died in 1990 so in 2011 the descendants of Wellington R. Burt opened the will. The 12 descendants learned that they would split an…

“Tristin Saghin, 9, knew just what to do when his 2-year-old sister was found floating unconscious in the pool at his grandmother’s house.” When his sister was pulled from the pool, Tristin started to perform chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Tristin said, “I knew what I was doing.”…