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Hunter could pay "deerly" Randolph Scott Stidham was so proud. of shooting an enormous deer he drove it around Jackson, Ky., in the back of his pickup to show it off to friends. But he had actually bagged .one of 1,300 protected elk that wildlife officials have restored to the state's Appalachian moun­tains.…

Select all the text in this box and paste your illustration here... Source: /Randall Gill http://www.gcfl.net Kenya Elephant In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one…

Seemingly insignificant decisions may have huge consequences in life. The investigation into the recent midair collision over the Hudson in New York City has revealed several possible contributing factors. One of the most surprising facts that emerged indicated that the collision that killed nine people…

So many times I've broken dates with my family to do something for the church. Below is an excerpt from by book, "The Boomerang Mandate, Returning the Ministry to the people of God" that tells about a time I got it right. Last spring, Susan and I scheduled a getaway weekend at a bed and breakfast in…

Henry Ford, the father of the mass-produced automobile, wrote in his autobiography, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” If that was true in the early twentieth century, the choices in the early twenty-first century would probably boggle Mr. Ford’s mind.…

Jack Benny and George Burns met as young performers on the vaudeville circuit and remained friends for life. One day at lunch, Benny wrestled with the problem of whether or not to butter his bread. "I like butter on my bread," he said. "But my diet strictly forbids butter. Maybe I should call Mary and…

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!' He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling…

Choices Choosing good over evil is an easy call. I don't have to agonize over whether to remain faithful to my wife. God's word makes that one clear. What do you do when you're faced with a choice between two goo things, and the choice is yours? A student has to decide between two schools. One that is…

"God chooses what we go through. We choose how we go through it."---- "The one thing you cannot take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me." ---Viktor Frankl "Everytime you make a choice you are turning the control part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little…

It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I am free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love… No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today, I will love God and what God loves. I choose joy… I will invite God to be the God of circumstance. I will…

Orator, attorney, and political leader William Jennings Bryan said, “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

A character in the Star Wars movies can teach us a lesson about choices. When we meet Anakin Skywalker in Episode I he’s a young boy with a good heart who thinks Obi-Wan Kenobi is the coolest Jedi ever[1]. He’s full of good intent, wanting to free his mother from slavery. When we last see him in Episode…

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a wholewith all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thingeither into a heavenly…

In the September/October 2007 issue of Today's Christian, Shirley Shaw tells the story of how the sacrifices of a successful cabinet maker named Terry Lane continue to change a drug-riddled neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. My business had prospered to the point my 40-man staff needed more space…

| In my experience, signs follow decisions. The way you overcome spiritual inertia and produce spiritual momentum is by making tough decisions. And the tougher the decision, the more potential momentum it will produce. The primary reason most of us don't see God moving is simply because we aren't moving.…

An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean that in return for his unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward him with his choice of infinite wealth, wisdom, or beauty. Without hesitating, the dean selects infinite wisdom. "Done!" says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of…