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This is a stunning story with life-changing implications for you and me. Studies indicate that touch is more powerful than words. Physical touch often shows intimacy, friendship, or compassion. Other times it’s a warning, a suggestion of danger, or an obstacle. A friend might hit you playfully, tap your arm, or grab your shoulder as they tell you a story. Think of the person who grabbed your arm to keep you from danger. Perhaps someone slapped you in anger—a touch that said much more than words. Touch resonates throughout our being. Touch is compellingly human. In Matthew’s eyewitness account of...

Every day, frustration hits us from every side — job pressure, delays, traffic, family friction, things out of our control. Frustration can become a weight on our thinking, our daily walk. Like a fifty-pound rucksack you didn't ask for. Like sand in your gearbox. Paul McCartney wrote about frustration in the song “Carry That Weight” on the Beatles' last album. He was covered up with the grind of fame and business and expectations; "Boy, you're gonna carry that weight, carry that weight a long time ... And in the middle of the celebrations, I break down." Frustration is not your...

There's a distinctive story of the parallels of President Gerald Ford and Rev. Jesse Jackson that is mostly overlooked. It's the lesser known story of Jesse. Jesse Jackson's passing on Monday is a reminder of an era when men of significance shaped the world we now live in, based on their convictions. He made a difference with his life. But there is more to the Jesse Jackson story than political activism. There is a large factor that shaped him into a leader as he grew into manhood. Jesse Louis Burns was born in the South to a single mother. When...

I’ve prayed for every President of my country for over 50 years. Whether I agreed with them, voted for them, or not. In the U.S. it's "Presidents Day." For many, it is a time of rest or recreation. But also a time to remember to pray for those in leadership in our nations - wherever you live. Paul taught his young protégé Timothy to pray for the leadership of where he lived. This could not have been an easy thing to hear, since it was during Roman occupation and tremendous persecution. Regardless, Paul said this; “Therefore I exhort first of...

The fallout of Jeffrey Epstein's depravity is like a jagged, shifting, tectonic fault lying just below the surface that widens today's moral decay with every shaking exposé and document dump. Epstein's licentious corruption didn't simply go away with his death. Revelations of greed, hubris, pride, sexual predation, perversion, and, for some people, proof that with great power comes ... the ability to get away with it. While many will argue the political scandals, the money, the timelines of who was where, when, and with whom, the real issue is the core issue of our day - the immaturity of men....