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I once saw a colonel shooting at a target. There were two targets near each other, and he hit the center of one of them. The attendant called out, “Which target was that gentleman shooting at?” “The one on the left,” was the answer. “I thought so,” said the man, “for he hit the one on the right.” There…

In his last moments John Knox had a sharp conflict with self-righteousness though he had preached against it with all his might, and knew, with a clearness seldom given to men, that salvation is of the Lord alone. Even within an hour of glory he had to make a stand against that vile thing, the pride…

A tree of common fruit may be let alone so long as there is some little fruit on it, but the very best fruit gets the sharpest pruning. I have noticed that in those countries where the best wine is made, the vinedressers cut the shoots right close in, and in the winter you cannot tell that there is a…

Irma Cano knows something about facing fear. Nine months before the novel coronavirus outbreak, she was working at the El Paso WalMart store where a gunman killed 23 people. Commenting on coping with COVID-19 stress, she said, “I don’t live fearful. To me, it’s not a way to approach that. To me, just…

Speaking at hospital news conference, Octavio Lazarde, a survivor of the shooting outside an El Paso Department store told the people gathered that the wound to his foot was painful, but he knew that pain would end. Lazarde said he was wounded in the foot and will need reconstructive surgery. He said…

On October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25am, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He instructed all of the adults and young boys to leave, but held the remaining ten girls hostage. Sensing what was to come, one of the girls offered…

In 1986, Detective Steven McDonald, a New York City police officer, spotted three teenagers stealing bicycles in Central Park. When he approached the boys, 15 year-old Shavod Jones shot McDonald three times. One of the bullets pierced McDonald’s spinal column, paralyzing him from the neck down. Six months…

Scientists released the first images from the Solar Orbiter and discovered something previously unknown about our sun. The pictures were taken from 48 million miles away and showed vibrant swirls of yellow and dark smoky gray. The pictures were so detailed, scientist created a new vocabulary to name…

When Lee Ann Walker became aware that she was in violation of a new rule put into place by the USGA and R&A, she reported the infraction to officials and added 58 penalty strokes to her score at the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2019/10/16/lee-anne-walker-shoots-127-senior-lpga-penalty-strokes/40327737/…

A video recently emerged of a man sleeping behind the wheel of a Tesla that was apparently on “autopilot,” going down the Massachusetts Turnpike at 55 MPH. Where did the video originate? Dakota Randall, who was driving next to the Tesla, shot the video. Randall told the CBS Boston affiliate, “I thought…

24-year-old Connor Betts entered a bar and restaurant in Dayton Ohio and shot and killed 9 people wounding 27 others. Dayton police, responding to the shooting, killed Connor or the massacre would have been much worse. His online obituary, published by his parents made no mention of the massacre that…

During the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX, Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife lost 26 members of their church family, including their own 14-year-old daughter. As the nation sat stunned at the news of the largest mass shooting in Texas history, the media requested a statement…

Game Warden Josey Branch from Oklahoma responded to a report of an elk with its antlers entangled in a cotton bale tarp, electric fence, and barbed wire fence. Since he could not get close to the animal, Branch used his rifle to shoot off the animal’s antlers above the bases and then shoot the wire and…

After a madman killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500 others , country music stars urged their fans to pray for the victims and their families. Artists Jason Aldean, Jake Owen, Lee Brice, Dylan Scott, and Luke Combs were among those who performed at the concert and urged people to pray.…

Different pollsters ask people different questions about what they are afraid of. Putting some of the questions together we discover that “42% are afraid of being a victim of a random mass shooting, up from 16% in 2015 (Chapman University), and 57% of teens worry about gunfire erupting at their schools…

Nine-year-old Dane Best took on the authorities in the town of Severance, Colorado and convinced them to rescind a century-old ban on snowball fights. The Colorado town gets a lot of snow and Best thought it was keep thinking about snowballs fights from the time he learned that the town had outlawed…

On October 27, 2018, Robert Gregory Bowers walked into a Synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, reportedly yelling that all Jews needed to die. When the shooting ended, twelve people were dead. For many, that is where the story ends. But not for all. Within one day of the tragedy, two organizations…

Tim Tebow has been in the spotlight for many years because of his Christian faith. He shares his faith openly on television interviews and in locker rooms across the country. After the recent shooting at the Orlando nightclub, Pulse, (an openly gay night club) Tebow learned that his high school football…

“Refugees from the Berlin wall, to Vietnamese and Cuban boat people, to the DMZ, the prisoners of communism run in only one direction: toward liberty and self-government.” A 24-year-old North Korean soldier joined the race to freedom. He commandeered a jeep in North Korea and sped toward the De-Militarized…

We are gathered here today to mourn the loss, but also to celebrate the life of Russell Bowen. Today we find comfort in knowing that God is with us as we grieve. In the Bible we read these words: We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not…

Modern progressives have taken to ridiculing the sending of thoughts and prayers to the victims of tragedy. After the shootings at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Star Trek actor Will Wheaton tweeted, “The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they’d still…

Perhaps the most iconic scene in all the Star Wars movies is from the very first one at the end of the movie. Remember when Luke is traveling down the Death Star trench, with only one shot to take, he fires the torpedoes into the impossibly small hole in order to destroy the planet-destroying weapon.…

In the trail of debris left by the disintegration of Comet Encke, Czech astronomers have discovered two large asteroids. The orbit of the Earth regularly takes us through this trail of debris, called the Taurid shower, creating a dazzling display of shooting stars. Most of the rocks are so small they…

In the hours after the 2006 Amish schoolhouse massacre, Terri Roberts, the mother of the shooter, received forgiveness from the parents of the victims. Roberts, isn’t content to just receive grace, she continues to give it to others. Every Thursday, Roberts stops by the home of one of the survivors,…

Speaking from the Columbus hospital where Logan, his son lay, Ryan Cole asked for prayers for his son, who is a16-year-old shooting victim. But that wasn’t his only prayer request. He also asked for prayers for the family of the accused shooter. —Jim L. Wilson & Ed Pincusoff Fox Newshttp:www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/26/dad-student-shot-seeks-prayers-for-son-suspect-family.html…