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Ladies and gentlemen, today, I’m going to take you on a journey into the captivating world of TED Talks. We’ll explore the secrets that make these talks so mesmerizing and reveal how you can apply these principles to your own presentations. Let us start with Carmine Gallo’s book “Talk Like…
From this morning’s reading of “Jesus Calling,” I reflected on a passage particularly resonant during the season stretching from Thanksgiving to the New Year. “THANK ME FREQUENTLY as you journey through today. This practice makes it possible to pray without ceasing, as the apostle Paul taught. If you are serious…
“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”Psalm 107:1. The tradition of our Thanksgiving meal goes back to 1620 when a group of people whose quest for freedom led them to the edges of the known world. This isn’t just a tale of a group;…
Picture this: a field at Runnymede, beside the gently flowing River Thames. It’s June 15, 1215. We’re about to witness one of the most pivotal moments in history—the signing of the Magna Carta. This isn’t just a story of a document being signed; it’s a saga of wars, a tale…
The Signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states (all but Rhode Island, which declined to send delegates), endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention. Our Constitution did not spring…
My first Derby win was “Sunday Silence” way back in 1989. We were just happy to be there with tickets I had obtained through Fort Knox, never thinking about the irony found in the names of the two favorites – one horse named for a moment of quiet and peace…
The Yellow Brick Road may lead you to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. But the Red Belt and Road and Intellectual Property Theft only lead to ruin and subjugation of liberty and freedom. The following three news items were copied from my morning John Ellis News Items. I am short…
YouVersion picked a good verse for me today. Thought it would be a good share. God’s love overcomes grief and suffering IF we let it. Seemed fitting in today’s chaos in the Middle East. So needless. So unnecessary. Psalm 147:3 in the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) reads: “He heals the…
This morning’s YouVersion Bible verse from Proverbs offered me a chance to play with ChatGPT. The verse was Proverbs – ancient wisdom. Wisdom is wisdom, and God endowed all with a mind that thinks and processes information. So, I tried an experiment of examining an Old Testament Proverb with New…
This sounds positive. Uses private equity to develop needed infrastructure. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.S. announced a $553-million project Wednesday to build a new, deep-water shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo as it competes with China in international development financing. The project, financed with private loans,…
