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God snatches victory from the jaws of defeat in each of our lives!

SHARING YOUR FAITH IS NOT HARD Typically, a person wants to tell everyone about a gift he or she received. Yet many people treat salvation like it's some kind of secret. They know what a wonderful thing they have but they're reluctant to tell others. * Sharing is called many things. The Bible calls sharing…

In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Your pain won’t last forever, but you will. What is coming will make sense of what is happening now. Let God finish his work. Let the composer complete his symphony. The forecast is simple. Good days. Bad days. But…

There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus , who walk not after the flesh , but after the Spirit

Clemency, a film that won the 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for drama is about death row, dealing with some of the social issues involved. When the priest quotes Romans 8:38-39 for comfort, he omits the most important phrase, the last one. Romans 8:38–39 (CSB) For I am persuaded that neither death nor…

In the movie, “The Green Mile,” John Coffey (played by Michael Clark Duncan) is wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of two young girls. Tom Hanks portrays Paul Edgecom, the prison guard in charge of death row. He learns of the Coffey’s innocence, but does nothing about it. In fact,…

One of Austin Hermsen’s friends posted his phone number on a Craigslist ad for a free turkey giveaway. The ad stated he had thirty turkeys to give away to whoever called him. While it started out as a prank, it quickly became a real event. After receiving 100 calls for free turkeys, his group of Hermsen’s…

A herd of 16 cows helped Florida police capture a suspect who jumped out of crashed car and tried to escape. A sheriff’s helicopter captured the incident on video and the crew guided officers on the ground. At one point, a member of the helicopter crew told officers on the ground, “If you see a large…

Researchers studying the eruption of the Kilauea volcano say volcanoes reveal secrets when they rumble and new technology helps them understand future volcanic eruptions better. Scientists say looking at variations and similarities between previous eruptions and the present activity gives them insight…

Sarcasm is often viewed as something bad, but a new study suggest that it may actually boost productivity and thought processes in both the user and the receiver. To examine their theory, researchers assigned volunteers to dialogues that were sarcastic, sincere, or neutral, and then assigned the participant…

When Chelsey Haley finished school and began teaching, she joined the Teach for America program to make a difference in a low-income school. She never expected to encounter a boy named Jerome, who made her question her motives and future as a teacher. She went to an elementary school in Louisiana, where…

When researchers visited a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were amazed at the amount of trash that had washed up on the beach. The researchers said they found an estimated 38 million pieces of trash on Henderson Island. Almost all of the trash was plastic, consisting…

Rick Deschamps, general manager of an electronics-processing firm in Ontario tells about a female employee who came running up to him with a cashbox. “I found $10,000.00,” the employee said. They opened the cashbox and found bundles of $50 bills that amounted to more than $75,000 American dollars. Don’t…

As 2016 wound down, scientists announced that the year was going to a little longer than most, one second longer to be exact. To make up for slowing in the Earth’s rotation countries using Coordinated Universal Time added the leap second during the countdown to 2017. The timing for the rest of the world…

Tom Brady, superstar Quarterback of the New England Patriots seems to have it all. He has four Super Bowl wins, extreme wealth and a supermodel wife. This is ultimate success by most standards. Yet despite all his success, fame and riches, he stated in a 60 Minutes interview, “there has to be more than…

After floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew filled her home, Jodi Gaddy prayed that someone would find her before the alligators swimming outside came into her home. Gaddy said there were helicopters overhead, but despite her attempts to contact them, no one noticed her signals. For three days, she lived…

Alexander Cirk ended up in a Chinese hospital after spending ten days in an airport waiting for a woman he met on the Internet. Cirk came to the airport hoping to meet a 26-year-old named Zhang. After waiting eight days, he told a local broadcaster than he would not leave until his “girlfriend” arrived.…

The youth group from Pathway of the Cross Church in Lubbock, Texas raised $7,000 to make the 1,100-mile trip to Louisville, Kentucky, but on the way, thieves broke into their van and took their money, performance outfits, clothes, phones, and wallets. Rather than go home, they continued the trip, unsure…

How many things there are in the world, which we have upon our tables and which we even eat, that if we were to put beneath our microscope we should be afraid to touch! For we should see all kinds of loathsome creatures creeping and crawling about in them—such things as we never conceived! And so it…

In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases. Almost one-third of the cases involved minors. The department of justice believes about 300,000 children in the United States are trafficking victims. Shannon Forsythe is the founder…

NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow got a lot of playing time during the 2015 pre-season, but in the end, he was cut from the Philadelphia Eagles rooster. Coach Chip Kelly said he did was not sure the quarterback was good enough to retain for the regular season. When a reporter caught up with Tebow later, he did…