... the top of the cooler proudly, displaying thousands of pennies that his family had been saving since he was two-years-old. Ian handed the cooler to Scott and said, "I want you to use this to buy a Christmas present for Victoria." At first Scott thought he must decline the gift, but something in Ian's eyes just wouldn't let him. The boy's expression was so full of love. So Scott hugged him and said, "Thank you very much." Thankfully, most of us have not experienced the horror of burned-down houses, but ...
... teachers its soldiers how to survive if they are lost or shot down in hostile territory. Some years ago you might remember Captain Scott O’Grady who existed for six days in Bosnia by eating just grass and bark. Of course we can’t survive much longer ... want you to use this to buy a Christmas present for Victoria.” At first he thought he must decline the gift, but something in Ian’s eyes just wouldn’t let him. The boy’s expression was so full of love. So he hugged him and said, “Thank you very ...
... to you were felt. This is what brings eternity into the present and makes the contemporary word take on eternal significance. Dr. Ian Maclaren quoted the old Puritan (divine) who said, "When so many are preaching to the times, let one brother speak for eternity ... There was only one man alive at that time who was the right man to preach on such an occasion. He was John Scott Lidgitt, then over 90 years old. Lidgett remembered hearing his grandmother tell her memories of having heard Wesley preach. The old man ...
... to make serious changes in the way he struck the ball. The history of such efforts is not auspicious. Some fine golfers – Ian Baker-Finch, Steve Ballesteros, Chip Beck – have revamped their swing and never returned to their earlier glory. What was Woods thinking? “I ... discipline that we learn to be like Him and live as He lived. In his book The Road Less Traveled, psychiatrist Scott Peck observed: There are many people I know who possess a vision of [personal] evolution yet seem to lack the will for ...
