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no benchwarmers

Posted by jeff olson on August 31st, 2010 | 6 responses
I always felt a little sad for the guys on my high school basketball team who were put into a game during the waning seconds when the outcome was already decided. I was glad to see them finally get a chance... read more »

needing friends in need

Posted by mike wittmer on August 26th, 2010 | no responses
Yesterday I got a call from a friend whose car wouldn’t start at a nearby store.  On the way to rescue my friend, I heard a story on the radio about a wealthy athlete who makes more money in a... read more »

His perfect timing

Posted by regina franklin on August 24th, 2010 | 11 responses
One hour and 36 minutes until deadline. Having returned to full-time teaching this year, I’m learning the complexities of balancing a job along with working with my husband in ministry and continuing... read more »

beyond sentimental slogans

Posted by sheridan voysey on August 9th, 2010 | 4 responses
There’s a billboard company in my area that likes to post nice slogans on its signs when it doesn’t have paid clients. “Kyoto—Targets Bring Results” declares one environmentally conscious poster.... read more »

giving to others

Posted by marvin williams on August 5th, 2010 | 5 responses
Rebekah Rushing who was a high-level assistant at Enron Corporation before it collapsed due to accounting fraud in 2001, demonstrated that ethics is much more than not doing wrong. She went beyond looking... read more »

receiving and deceiving

Posted by regina franklin on August 4th, 2010 | 13 responses
My husband and I were leaving a restaurant one evening when a distraught couple approached us. Their story? Car problems. From out of town. Waiting for their ride. We responded with compassion,... read more »

finishers

Posted by marvin williams on July 31st, 2010 | one response
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, architect, and poet, whose artistic accomplishment exerted a tremendous amount of influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent European art. The sad reality is,... read more »

God is coming

Posted by winn collier on July 28th, 2010 | 4 responses
Recently, two pygmy sperm whales lay stranded near a New Zealand beach. Though volunteers, led by conservation officer Malcolm Smith, worked tirelessly, they couldn’t coax the beached whales back out... read more »

people make the place

Posted by mike wittmer on July 27th, 2010 | 5 responses
Every romantic movie filmed in Italy includes a classic shot of the Amalfi Coast, where hairpin turns lead wide-eyed sightseers past lemon groves, vineyards, and whole towns built into the side of a mountain.... read more »

community or clique?

Posted by mike wittmer on July 16th, 2010 | 8 responses
Birds of a feather flock together. That’s why you never see a robin flying wingman in a “V” formation of geese or a crow hanging out with hummingbirds (actually, crows are mean enough that they don’t... read more »
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