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CHILDREN: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children. Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young. Children seldom misquote you. In fact,…

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…

I will never forget Ted Stone

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…

A young minister had been preaching in a country village, and the sermon apparently took deep effect on the minds of the hearers. In the congregation there was a young man who felt acutely the truth of the solemn words to which the preacher had given utterance. He sought the preacher after the service,…

Figures released by the United States government show that more Americans aged 65 and over are still working. The last time the percentage was this high was when John F. Kennedy was president. The research suggests that as Americans get older and life expectancy increases, many people want to work because…

Retired teacher Jennifer Daniel has been helping students at the C.A. Weis Elementary school for over ten years. She started partnering with the school the year her youngest daughter graduated from high school. Daniel got her church involved and they have impacted the lives of many children since. The…

Hubert Davis accepted the Head Coaching position as the North Carolina basketball coach just four days after Roy Williams retired. But he isn’t just returning to the school where he played from 1988-92 to win basketball games—he is on a mission. In 2014, he explained why he accepted the assistant coaching…

An anonymous donor could not bear to see the forgotten people of Fort Worth forgotten, so he gave most of his retirement funds to help the Church on the Slab buy and renovate their building. The retired railroad employee, who had served in Korea, saw an article telling how the church was about to lose…

Chuck Feeney co-founded “Duty Free Shoppers” and it made him rich. With the billions of dollars that he earned Feeney began a philanthropic foundation with the goal of giving away the entire $8 Billion fortune. He recently shut down the foundation after succeeding in giving away all but $2 million that…

When Paul Mitchell saw how hard parts of Texas were hit by a strong winter storm, he knew God wanted him to go and help people who did not have water to drink shower or even flush their toilets. The retired plumber and his family went to Austin area along with others, and soon realized that the plumbers…

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…

Howard Mullen graduated from high school in 1946 and has dedicated his life to serving the community of Pomeroy, Ohio. In 1952 he received his EMT certification and joined the local fire department and then became a sheriff’s deputy in the county. He continued to serve for decades and has never really…

After 80 years of playing the piano for her church, Shirley Kendrick decided to retire. Kendrick started playing the piano in the church basement when she was nine, and first played for worship services at age eleven when the other pianist moved away. Over the years, Kendrick taught many students how…

A Florida travel insurance company awarded a Georgia high school teacher $10,000 because she took time to read the fine print in a policy she purchased. A statement from the company said Donelan Andrews claimed the prize 23 hours after the contest began. The company said it launched the secret contest…

Albert Lexie shined shoes for a living. Every Tuesday and Thursday for 32 years, he would leave home at 5:50 a.m. and make a three-bus trek to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. There, he shined the shoes of staff and visitors and donated all of his tips to the hospital’s young patients. By the…

Hundreds of residents of New Bern, North Carolina needed help after Hurricane Florence flooded their community with torrential downpours. One of those helping was retired Marine Jason Weinmann. After he left the Corps, Weinmann purchased a large military transport vehicle at a government auction with…

The safest bus to ride in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio is the one driven by Godwin McNeal. McNeal has driven for the Regional Transit Authority for 40 years, and logged nearly 1.2 million miles without causing an accident. Officials say that is the longest preventable accident-free streak in RTA…

Don Gorske, a 64-year-old retired prison guard from Wisconsin has eaten a Big Mac every day since May 17, 1972 for a total of 30,000 Big Macs. Why? According to news reports it is because “he loves hamburgers.” The Guinness World Records recognized him for eating the most Big Mac in 2016 when he was…

At 63-years-old, Mélisande Short-Colomb applied to and was accepted as a student at Georgetown University. That is a remarkable story in and of itself, but it gets better. The appeal of her story is not that she began her college career when many people are preparing for retirement, it is the reason…

A Pennsylvania Turnpike worker decided that being brutally honest was the best way to end his 35-year career with the state. The worker was asked to fill out an exit survey and email it back to the human resources department. After completing the survey, the employee hit the “replay all” button and sent…

Michael Phelps is a retired American swimmer who holds the record for the most Olympics medals won by any athlete at 28, including 23 gold medals and 13 individual gold metals. Phelps competed in his first Olympics at the age of 15, as part of the U.S. men's swim team. He was the first American male…

David Knowles must be a good teacher. The 77-year-old retired nurse was teaching CPR to fellow church members in southern England when he went into cardiac arrest. As he lay on the floor he gave further instruction to his trainees on how to help him before he lost consciousness. One class member, Karol…

Before the beginning of the 2016 major league baseball season, Adam LaRoche abruptly retired. LaRoche had played 12 seasons with several different teams and was set to make $13 million this year alone. So why would a man walk away from $13 million? Adam started a tradition early on in his career. He…

Recently Tom Watson, an eight time major champion indicated that he would no longer participate in the golf championships at the Masters in Augusta, GA. The main factor for shelving the event was the course length. Watson indicated to the press that his greatest regret at this point was that his time…