Valuable Information Can Get You Through Any Hardship A man built like a lumberjack, walking his Chihuahua, saw me standing with my fly rod and approached me.  “How was the fishing?” I truthfully told him that I had caught nothing.  He replied, “Morris Island is loaded with fish. I was just there this morning.” My...

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Live Like You Are the Luckiest Person in the World. In one of my classes, my Scripture professor explained that the Bible was meant to teach, convince, and inspire us to stand with God no matter how hard it got.  In the 1970s, his only son, who had just turned six, was hit by a...

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Devils May Be Powerful, but We Can do Something They Cannot Do: Say to Jesus: I Know You I was teaching a class this past week, and I needed to use a PowerPoint presentation. But I could not get it to work. There were hundreds of wires connecting the computer to the white smart board....

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Mend those Nets There you are, standing on a putting green. How far do you draw your club back before you hit the ball? If you draw it back too far, you will not be accurate. If you do not draw it far enough, you may dub the ball. After playing golf all day, Tiger Woods...

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Good Doing Comes After Good Listening. When I worked for my father in construction, he always started the day by meeting with the workers. The supply house delivered sheet rock and left it on the sidewalk. Dad turned to me and told me to bring it to the fourth floor. Naturally, it did not fit in...

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Seeing True Treasure The greatest archeological find, ever, was the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls. When the Romans went to war with the Jews in Jerusalem, rich aristocrats took their precious scrolls of the Bible, walked into a pottery shop, bought clay jars, and hid the scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea at...

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Chemistry When Peter and Andrew first encountered Jesus, they ended up leaving their trade behind and followed Him. I find that remarkable. They had just met the guy, and now they were rearranging their entire lives. Jesus must have been someone special for them to do that. Take a look at Matthew. He had the...

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