Ready.  Aim.  Throw!  Yesterday was National Darts Day.  Why June 29th?  June 29th is the 180th day of the year and 180 is the highest number of points a person can achieve in one round of darts. “The roots of darts stretch back to medieval England, where soldiers honed their aim by throwing sharp objects… Read More »

Today, we finish up the article written by Evangelist Rick Flanders.  If you missed yesterday’s devotional, you need to go back and read it in preparation for today.  May God bless our hearts and minds with heavenly illumination as we consider these truths taught by Isaiah. — That He Could Be Purged After the prophet… Read More »

Dr. Rick Flanders is the staff evangelist for First Baptist Church, Bridgeport, Michigan.  Since 1971, he has been in full time ministry and has preached all around the country.  Over the next couple of days, enjoy and glean from his teachings from Isaiah 6. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because… Read More »

From at least the time of President Lincoln to the present era, most presidents have taken on a responsibility that is hard to imagine.  I personally believe that they are within their right to do so and litigation has exonerated their actions, though it hasn’t curtailed the criticisms.  These presidents have either entered wars or… Read More »

It would be safe to say that today has a “beautiful” thing to celebrate.  This is National Beautician’s Day.  It’s a celebration of stylists, cosmetologists, and beauticians who do their best to make us look good and to help take care of us.  Some of them really have their work cut out for them, don’t… Read More »

If you enjoy fishing, today is National Catfish Day.  Congress must not have had anything better to do in 1987, so they created Joint Resolution 178 which called for a day to recognize the catfish.  Perhaps they were wishing they were fishing instead of legislating!  President Ronald Reagan signed the proclamation, establishing June 25 as… Read More »

European history tells the stories of two events that has researchers still baffled as to the cause.  Choreomania – the Dancing Plague overtook the residents of Aachen, Germany on this day in 1374.  Citizens “started to pour out of their houses and into the streets where they began to writhe and whirl uncontrollably.”1 Strasbourg, located… Read More »

John Schrank, Samuel Byck, Lynette Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Vladimir Arutyunian, and Thomas Crooks all have something in common.  Any idea what that might be?  What if I added the name John Hinckley, Jr. to the list.  Did that help?  What these people all have in common is that they attempted to assassinate a President… Read More »

Yesterday wasn’t just Father’s Day which can only be celebrated by a certain percentage of society.  It was a day that could be celebrated by ALL – it was the first day of summer!  It was also National Daylight Appreciation Day, recognizing the day of the year with the longest amount of sunlight in the… Read More »

Happy Father’s Day, dads!  “The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington. However, it was not until 1972—58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official—that the day honoring fathers became a national holiday in the United States… “The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did… Read More »