Kicker: Not fishing for a compliment

A high schooler in Minnesota reels in a farmer’s wallet and declines the reward

https://wng.org/podcasts/kicker-not-fishing-for-a-compliment-1693424291

Husker faithful and Husker players on faith in football

https://www.ketv.com/article/its-an-act-of-worship/44921452?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Marian Manwell didn’t give up so why should you ?

HOST: DR. JAMES DOBSONNever give up on life! You may be amazed what you can accomplish if you stick with it.

https://familytalk.widen.net/content/rkxookweuy/mp3/07292015MARIANMANWELL.mp3?u=c3crpv&download=true

This 20-Something Couple Is Raising Two teens

Stories that depict parenting as the end of happiness are a cottage industry these days, but a story told recently in People magazine was different. Arkansas teachers Tasia and Drew Taylor are, at just 23 and 25, raising two teenagers, with a baby on the way. 

First, the Taylors took in Tasia’s cousin Tamiray. Then they adopted Rory, a 13-year-old student at the school where Tasia taught, when they learned she was being placed in foster care. When asked why, the Taylors said, “We felt God was calling us.”

Tasia described their decisions to provide a home for these teenagers in this way:  

People try to make us out as martyrs a lot of the time, and that’s not what we are. There’s no way that in our heart we could turn these kids away knowing that we had the space for them, and we were willing to provide for them.

https://www.breakpoint.org/this-20-something-couple-is-raising-two-teens/

Lakers, Vanessa Bryant announce Kobe Bryant statue to be unveiled at Crypto.com Arena

Lakers, Vanessa Bryant announce Kobe Bryant statue to be unveiled at Crypto.com Arena .

A statue of late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant will be unveiled outside Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 8, 2024, the team announced on Kobe Bryant Day.

The date is significant because it incorporates the No. 8 and No. 24 jersey numbers worn by Bryant during his 20-year Lakers career as well as the No. 2 jersey daughter Gianna Bryant wore as a player for Kobe’s Mamba Academy.

( I was a Lakers fan back then then.)

Trump Has Zero Shot At Winning The Most Important Election In History

The backstop average Americans have long had against the worst leftist tendencies will be irrevocably removed. Given the propensity of leftist jurists to ignore the actual words of the Constitution in favor of whatever pretzel they need to turn those words into to advance leftism, that means the end of every Constitutional right we’ve held dear for centuries, including and especially free speech and the right to keep and bear arms. Life in America as a free citizen will be over when the last bastion of legal resistance against the left is gone. This is an incontrovertible fact.

And make no mistake, barring a miracle, that last bastion WILL be lost to us if Republicans do not win this election. An argument can and has been made that every election is important, even the most important, but that has never been more true than it is right now. Lose this time, and for the above reason and many others, the America we know and love is finished.

I greatly appreciate everything Donald Trump has done for our cause, but putting this guy out there as our nominee isn’t just insane; it’s political suicide. Too much is at stake. Everything is at stake. To use a sports analogy, if a team’s quarterback gets sacked by the opposing team and breaks his leg – even if the sack was against the rules – you don’t keep trotting that quarterback onto the field to get punished again and again. You put someone else in there and try to win the game. Because winning is all that matters.

By continuing to support Trump, you’re playing right into their hands. If the stakes weren’t so high, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But they are, and it is, and I promise, if we continue down this path, the hellish train wreck at the end will be something none of us want to experience

( The column writer is 100% right. Trump backers need to ask what will will do the most good for the nation Trump or a another GOP candidate. Read the whole column at https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2023/08/21/column-n2627273

Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari files for divorce ( How sad , I hope they had no children )

https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/britney-spears-sam-asghari-divorce/44842262

A teacher’s favorite student ( a great idea )

https://youtube.com/shorts/CvuBo41fpTk?feature=share

By contract, surrogacysets children up as commodities to be bought, sold, or eliminated for convenience, which is a bad start for image bearers.

50 Years Ago, Chuck Colson Was Granted Eternal Life

Fifty years ago this week, Charles W. Colson became a follower of Jesus Christ. Chuck would subsequently become one of the most respected evangelical leaders of the 20th and early 21stcenturies, founding both Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and authoring bestselling books such as Born Again, How Now Shall We Live?, and Loving God.  

Chuck Colson’s influence came about because of how deeply and thoroughly Jesus Christ changed his life. Certainly, he was an incredibly gifted person (after all, not everyone lands in a White House office as special counsel to the President of the United States in their thirties!). Yet, Chuck’s giftedness before he found faith was corrupted by pride, which led to an incredible public fall. 

On the thirtieth anniversary of his conversion, Chuck Colson described it in detail. Here, in his own voice, is Chuck Colson: 

Thirty years ago today, I visited Tom Phillips, president of the Raytheon Company, at his home outside of Boston. I had represented Raytheon before going to the White House, and I was about to start again. 

But I visited him for another reason as well. I knew Tom had become a Christian, and he seemed so different. I wanted to ask him what had happened. 

That night, he read to me from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, particularly a chapter about the great sin that is pride. A proud man is always walking through life looking down on other people and other things, said Lewis. As a result, he cannot see something above himself immeasurably superior—God. 

Tom, that night, told me about encountering Christ in his own life. He didn’t realize it, but I was in the depths of deep despair over Watergate, watching the President I had helped for four years flounder in office. I had also heard that I might become a target of the investigation as well. In short, my world was collapsing. 

That night, as Tom was telling me about Jesus, I listened attentively but didn’t let on about my need. When he offered to pray, I thanked him but said, no, I would see him sometime after I had read C.S. Lewis’s book. But when I got in the car that night, I couldn’t drive it out of the driveway. Ex-Marine captain, White House tough guy, I was crying too hard, calling out to God. I didn’t know what to say: I just knew I needed Jesus, and He came into my life. 

That was thirty years ago. 

I’ve been reflecting of late on the things God has done over that time. As I think about my life, the beginning of the prison ministry, our work in the justice area, our international ministry that reaches one hundred countries, and the work of the Wilberforce Forum and Breakpoint, I have come to appreciate the doctrine of providence. It’s not the world’s idea of fate or luck, but the reality of God’s divine intervention. He orchestrates the lives of His children to accomplish His good purposes. 

God has certainly ordered my steps. I couldn’t have imagined when I was in prison that I would someday go back to the White House with ex-offenders as I did on June 18—or that we would be running prisons that have an 8% recidivism rate—or that Breakpoint would be heard daily on a thousand radio outlets across the United States and on the internet. 

The truth that is uppermost in my mind today is that God isn’t finished. As long as we’re alive, He’s at work in our lives. We can live lives of obedience in any field because God providentially arranges the circumstances of our lives to achieve His objectives. 

And that leads to the greatest joy I’ve found in life. As I look back on my life, it’s not having been to Buckingham Palace to receive the Templeton Prize or getting honorary degrees or writing books. The greatest joy is to see how God has used my life to touch the lives of others, people hurting and in need. 

It has been a long time since the dark days of Watergate. I’m still astounded that God would take someone who was infamous in the Watergate scandal, and soon to be a convicted felon, and take him into His family and then order his steps in the way He has with me. God touched me at that moment in Tom Phillip’s driveway, and thirty years later, His love and kindness touch and astound me still. 

Chuck Colson’s life and legacy continues to be a testimony to God’s amazing grace.  

For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to

breakpoint.org.