THE PHONE RINGS. IT’S A LOCAL NUMBER. YOU ANSWER.
A few seconds of silence, then a recorded message. Arghhhh! You’ve been Robo-called. You’re not alone. In the first five months of 2018, 16.3 billion of those irritating, grating, inconveniencing nuisance calls were made to Americans. But, I have the secret to redeeming them if not stopping outright.
Back in the day, like two years ago, you would actually get a live person on the other end of the line, ready to deliver you a sales pi ...
I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF IN 1989. Things were tough, I was deeply in debt, drug addicted and thinking things were never going to change. I tried to take the selfish way out because I had no hope.
My Uncle Brent shot himself through the heart with a deer rifle when I was a little kid because he had no hope.
Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain took their lives despite the fact that they were rich and famous because they had no hope.
According to the Centers for Disease Control suicide rates hav ...
It’s that time of year again, when school has ended and summer fun
begins. Start your summer off right by coming to First Christian Church where they are gearing up for Vacation Bible School!
This year the adventure has been SHIPWRECKED and the Castaways will learn how that even in times where we feel all alone and stranded Jesus is there to SAVE us!
The fun begins on Monday June 4th and wraps up on Friday the 8th.
We live in an age where it seems everything happens like lightning. Nothing has the time to get old anymore because of the next new thing. And, after that, something else is newer. How fast is today’s faster? This is what happens in just one minute on the Internet by 2018 estimates:
• Nearly 1 million will log onto Facebook
• 2.4 million snaps will be created on SnapChat
• Google will be searched 3.7 million times
• 4.3 million videos will be watched on YouTube
• 18 mill ...
Back in the 1970’s I had a friend who worked at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. He was some kind of computer guru. He had top secret security clearance. He wouldn’t discuss his work other than to tell me that he could see a battle field from any angle including from the vantage point of the enemy.
SOME POTTED PLANTS WENT MISSING and a local East Main Street restaurateur noticed that things were changing in our small town. He used to put them outside on the sidewalk for decorations, but after this recent theft, not anymore.
Recently, an online predator targeted Johnson City middle and high-schoolers using SnapChat as bait.
A little over a year ago, an Airstream dealer next to the Pedernales River was busted for theft by deception and was wanted in Arizona for the kidnaping and sexua ...
When I received an email from my brother, Dale, saying that he was considering retirement, he had attached a picture of a corner in his home with a note that said, “After almost 40 years of marriage I have finally arrived. I now have my very own man-corner. I had thoughts of having a man-cave, but those dreams were dashed long ago…”
The photo shows a modest but nice wooden desk and a two-drawer file cabinet: that’s about all—not even a chair.
A woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. "What denomination?" asked the clerk. "Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?" said the woman. "Well, give me 50 Catholic and 50 Baptist ones."
Two thousand years ago the very first church had 120 believers and met in an upper room.
As a young pilot, Gail “Hal” Halvorson had flown cargo planes into Berlin during the infamous Soviet blockade of 1948-1949. It was designed to give the Soviet Union control over Germany’s entire capital city following the war. The Soviets had taken possession of half the country which left Berlin isolated within the territory they claimed as theirs.
THE TITANIC SANK 106 YEARS AGO with the anniversary of its demise remembered last Sunday. Over 500 books and nearly 50 films and television programs have documented this incident, including the second highest grossing film of all time which made over two billion dollars worldwide. The “unsinkable ship” still fascinates, with all its stories of human error, lavish extravagance, heroism and selfishness, yet not much has been written about one man who gave his life attempting to save the sou ...
