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Though it sank years ago, the Titanic continues to capture people’s imagination—especially as they speculate on how the disaster could have been avoided. Captain Charles B. Weeks studied the relative size its rudder to the hull to determine if a larger rudder would have made a difference. There are different…

In the United States, cigarettes are responsible for a quarter of fire related deaths and over half the fatalities in residential fires. Typically, cigarettes cause localized burns. But when cigarettes come into contact with certain materials and are allowed to smolder, in an instant the whole room can…

A 64-year-old woman in New Zealand has it figured out to control her tongue. When she called the New Zealand equivalent of 911, she mumbled and groaned throughout the call and operators sent police to her home. There they discovered the mute woman had mistaken her lip ointment with a tube of super glue…

A bridle bit will weigh between one and two pounds, yet a rider can direct an 1800-pound horse with it. https://martinblack.net/on-the-road-with-martin-black/traditional-california-bit-weights.html Small things can have power over things that are exponentially larger than they are. James 3:3; 5 (CSB)…

Yahoo video clip news revealed that a postman threw a parcel box into the addressee's house compound and the antique contents were damaged. His negligence is on display for the world to see. The same happens when we make an angry post on Facebook. What we do in the privacy of our living room suddenly…

Only a Spark! The church I went to as a boy has many memories for me. One of them not only special in that it kind of went along with James 3:6 (NAS) 6 And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the…

A southern California golfer is a good example of how a small spark can start a big blaze. The man was golfing at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine, and accidentally chipped his ball into the rough beside the fairway. On his next swing, his club hit a rock, which caused a small spark. The spark…

by Charles R. Swindoll Proverbs 10:11-21, 15:1-7; James 3:1-12 Abraham Lincoln's coffin was pried open twice. The first occasion was in 1887, twenty-two long years after his assassination. Why? You may be surprised to know it was not to determine if he had died of a bullet fired from John Wilkes Booth's…

As fire fighters began to get the upper hand on the huge Station Fire in Southern California, they learned the fire was arson. Investigators originally thought the huge fire had been started by lightning or another accidental cause. The fire destroyed dozens of homes and blackened over 148,250 acres,…

TONGUE, SPEECH A Malaysian court has ruled that using derogatory and vulgar language about your superiors at work is acceptable, as long as you do it behind their backs. The Industrial Court ruled in the case of a secretary who was fired because she sent e-mail from the office computer to several friends,…

Martin Luther, the reformer of grace, was more often angry and spoke his mind before thinking. In the late 1520s, he got into a running argument about the Lord’s Supper with reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Zwingli believed that the bread and wine were merely symbolic of Christ’s presence at the table. Luther…

Have you ever heard of people critisizing one another? Do you remember feeling uncomfortable - or did you want to hear more? Critisizism can be a healthy thing if it done to actually help another person. But there is a kind of critisism that stings and bites. I suppose the master of this was Sir Winston…

Before you criticize someone, make sure you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes! Mikey's Funnies 5-27-08

PARENTING A survey by a British Magazine for teenagers suggests teens may not be as rebellious as most people think. Bliss magazine asked 5,000 young people, with an average age of 15, to take part in a study examining social and political attitudes of teenagers across the country. The survey found the…

James 1:2-4 2 My family once lived next door to a woman in her eighties who was admittedly crusty and made a life out of being just a touch out-of-sorts about most things. It was her "gig," and we loved her for it. She claimed that her daily gin and cigarettes kept her fresh! Her sister, on the other…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…