ISAIAH 25:7 For twenty one years, Mary Ann Franco was totally blind after surviving a car accident in 1995. It took another accident in 2016 to cause what she calls an act of God. After falling down in her home, she received surgery on her spine to alleviate pain in her neck and arm and, when … [Read more…]
MATTHEW 5:29-30 Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian Dominican Monk from Ferrara and a fiery preacher. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He condemned clerical corruption, autocratic rule, and the exploitation of the poor. In February 1497, he and his supporters … [Read more…]
1 TIMOTHY 2:1 Do we stop to think of and pray for the people who are not close to us or known by us? Why should we really be bothered with their affairs when we have enough burden for the day and days to come? A young lady and her mother heard a news story about … [Read more…]
ACTS 16:23-34 Fannie Lou Hamer began civil rights activism in 1962, continuing until her health declined nine years later. She was known for her use of spiritual hymnals and quotes in leading the civil rights movement for black women in Mississippi. She was threatened, harassed, shot at, and assaulted by racists, including members of the … [Read more…]
DEUTERONOMY 31:6, 8 Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (popular known as Martin Niemöller) was born on January 14th, 1892 and died on March 6th, 1984. He was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and for his widely quoted 1946 poem … [Read more…]
PSALM 127:2 On January 8th 1964 Randy Gardner (born 1946), an American from San Diego, California, set the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep. Seventeen-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds. Decades … [Read more…]
PROVERBS 3:13-14 The Fenn Treasure was a collection of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn (August 22, 1930 to September 7, 2020), a former pilot in the US Air Force, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. It was found about a decade … [Read more…]
MARK 10:28-30 The only way businesses can survive is if they generate more profit than loses. Profit typically means your business is financially well off. Losses might start slowly, but your business could find itself missing a larger chunk than it can withstand. Jesus assured His followers they would have an unbelievable return on investing their … [Read more…]
ROMANS 5:8 Edwin Stanton did not get off on the right track with Abraham Lincoln. When they first met, he rebuffed the US president personally and professionally – even referring to him as a “long-armed creature.” But Lincoln appreciated Stanton’s abilities and chose to forgive him, eventually appointing him to a vital cabinet position during the … [Read more…]
ACTS 10:34 Massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. of Virginia. Many schools, and even an entire school system, were shut down in 1958 and 1959 in attempts to block integration – the act of having African-American (black) students attend schools previously attended by only Caucasian (white) students. Today, some … [Read more…]
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