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Search Committee’s Reference checks We do not have a happy report to give. We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect. Thank you for your suggestions. We have followed up on each one with interviews or by calling at least three references.…

STUNNED BY GRACE by Max Lucado I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by his grace. God's judgment has never been a problem for me. In fact, it always seemed right. Lightning bolts on Sodom. Fire on Gomorrah. Good job, God. Egyptians swallowed in the Red Sea. They had it coming.…

The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…

Dr. Doug Sager is the pastor of FBC Concord in Knoxville, TN. He was recently elected chairman of the IMB's board of trustees. He shared this hilarious story in chapel last Wednesday. Use with discretion, please! -- Mark SAGER: I come from a part of Tennessee where many people believe that if you go…

When a ship first leaves the stocks it is well for it to go on a trial trip, but to have a ship always being tried would be very absurd. It is time that it took voyages in earnest, and was registered in the merchant service; there will be trial enough in the actual execution of service. Some Christians,…

Have you never noticed in the streets that if one person stands still and looks up, or is occupied with gazing into a shop window, others become curious and look also? I would enlist that faculty of curiosity which is within every man and prompt you to search with the angels as they pry into the underlying…

You might be the possessor of a large estate, and an adversary might contest your right to it, and you might not be able to find your title deeds. The estate might be yours clearly enough, but those deeds of yours might be mislaid and locked up in a forgotten drawer, and perhaps you might be sorely put…

Do you not know that plain dealing is more precious than rubies? Would you not say to your physician, “Put me under the severest examination, and let me know the truth”? Would you pay him a fee so that he might deceive you? As to your soul, do you not desire to know the very worst of your case? If you…

When the Portuguese captain first went by the Cape of Storms it was a venturous voyage, and he called it the Cape of Good Hope when he had rounded it. When Columbus first went in search of the New World, his was a brave spirit that dared cross the unnavigated Atlantic. But there are tens of thousands…

I sometimes liken the promises to the smith’s great bunch of keys, which he brings when you have lost the key of your chest and cannot unlock it. He feels pretty sure that out of all the keys upon the ring some one or other will fit, and he tries them with patient industry. At last—yes—that is it, he…

How many Christians are like the miser who never feels sure about the safety of his money, even though he has locked up the iron safe, and secured the room in which he keeps it, and locked up the house, and bolted and barred every door! In the dead of night, he thinks he hears a footstep, and tremblingly…

Officials at Death Valley National Park said they hope to capture a goat seen wandering in the California section of the park. A tourist spotted the goat near Stovepipe Wells and shared a picture with park officials. Rangers immediately went to area to find the non-native animal and remove it from the…

Bill Patrick Sr. and Bill Patrick Jr., a father and son who had not seen each other in almost 48 years had a reunion at a Pennsylvania Airport after the younger man’s aunt helped them find each other. Bill Jr. said, his mother left his father in Spring 1973 and all he knew about his father was the information…

A Nova Scotia man who went searching for lost kite-surfing equipment came back with something unexpected, a message in a bottle which included a diamond ring. Sebastian Allain said he was using borrowed kite-surfing equipment when a strong gust of wind carried it out to sea. He hoped it had washed up…

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…

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…

A team of British treasure hunters found a fortune worth of coins dating from the 15th to 17th centuries using metal detectors to search a field in England. The team found a couple of coins and then asked the owner of the field for permission to search the 15-acre field. Over the next three days they…

Authorities in eastern Tennessee spent time searching for a tiger in the vicinity of Knoxville. A sheriff’s office spokesperson they received unconfirmed tiger sightings one evening in the eastern part of Knox County, and a deputy dispatched to the area also spotted the animal. They said it quickly disappeared…

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, writing in NYTimes.com says much of America is anxious and worried. Over the past eight years, Google search rates for “anxiety” have more than doubled. So far, 2016 is breaking records for searches about travel anxiety, separation anxiety, anxiety at work, anxiety at school,…

Deland McCullough is the running backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He always knew he was adopted but until he was 44 he never looked for his birth parents. Then he started looking. He found his birth mother through records and she told him who his father was. McCullough said he thought he would…

A 39-year-old woman from Westminster Maryland forgot about a lottery ticket she had purchased a week before but found it when she was searching for something in her purse. She was carrying around a quarter of a million dollars in her purse for a week and didn’t even know it. When she discovered the ticket…

Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…

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…

The McCormick Spice company announced that it will soon pay a taco lover $100,000 over four months to innovate new seasoning mixes and recipes to make tacos better. The company will employ the person for four months at a salary of $25,000 per month. They asked for an availability to work remotely up…