The U.S. Geological Survey placed a historical marker at 39° 50′ 00″ N 98° 35′ 00″ W on June 29, 1941.  Located near Lebanon, Kansas, there’s nothing much more to report.  The marker is in a typical field and there is currently a very crude sign marking the point.  What’s so special about it?  It… Read More »

A dip into history is necessary to set up an event that took place on this day in 1993.  It begins with William Miller, born February 15, 1782.  Miller was an avid student of the Bible, became a Baptist lay preacher, but soon began forming beliefs contrary to what Baptists believe.  He became a Deist… Read More »

An MSN.com headline broke the news on February 2nd.  Ohio high school basketball team vacates 10 wins due to an ineligible player.  McNicholas High School, a Catholic school in Cincinnati, “was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1915 as St. Joseph Academy, and was established in 1951 as McNicholas High School, the first… Read More »

We live in a world of influencers.  Though the word “influence” has been with us for a long time, influencer because a buzz word of the social media-ites and found its way quickly into our vocabulary.  The meaning never changed.  An influencer is trying to influence someone to see an issue from the influencer’s point… Read More »

Have you ever read the warning labels on certain products and wondered why such a label was necessary?  My guess is that our assessment was a bit more harsh because the warning seemed so ridiculous and unnecessary.  However, the following examples show us why those labels had to be made. The most frequently told story… Read More »

Dr. Jim Schettler, VP of Student Affairs at West Coast Baptist College is one of my favorite Bible preachers and teachers.  I’ve heard him in person once and it was fantastic!  I share with you today a message in print form from this gifted servant of the Lord.  It is my “hope” that you will… Read More »

This is a little bit different of a devotional.  Let me start by giving you some fun facts I discovered concerning the human body. Humans glow very faintly due to biochemical reactions in the body, but it’s invisible to the naked eye. Your bones are stronger than steel of the same density, especially the femur.… Read More »

Let’s stick with the ending topic from yesterday’s devotional and use it for today.  It’s the topic of sleep – and I’m not talking about the nap some might take this morning while the preacher preaches!  Here are some surprising facts about sleep. Did you realize that we spend about 1/3 of our lives sleeping? … Read More »

To be polite in awkward situations, we might try to strike up a conversation with the person next to us.  We might ask, “What do you do for a living?”  Admittedly, there are some answers that impress and intrigue us.  Imagine the person saying, “I’m an astronaut working for NASA.”  “I’m an ethical hacker working… Read More »

Anyone born in the 1960s remembers those occasional tests of the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS).  As a commercial, you would get a message that began, “This is a test.  For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct of a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.  This is only a test.”  This would be followed… Read More »