Mental Attitude and Preparation
No one really knows just how powerful the mind is. I have seen people, who practice the power of positive thinking day after day, and who give me some convincing reports concerning its value. In my own life I have experienced some of these things that are amazing, and especially »
Your Personal Battle (Growing Older)
I would like you to take stock and answer this question: when have you tried something new? A sure sign of deciding that being past forty is well down the road toward ineffectiveness is never to tackle any additional goals or accept any new challenges. This does not always have »
The wife of “The World’s Strongest Man” finds A Greater Strength
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Newly married in 1959 at age eighteen, Glenda Anderson began to experience what she had craved for years: security, provided by her husband, Paul, a powerful man of well over 300 pounds. In 1956 he had become an Olympic gold medalist; to this day he is the last American to »
What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?
Strokes just happen; they do not give any prior warning. I know; I just had one. One instant things were fine; the next it was over, leaving its mark. Fortunately, it was a small one. As I was explaining my mother’s history of strokes to my doctor, I said “She »
Different Yet The Same
It is one of the most amazing accounts in the Bible, and absolutely one of my favorites: the last Chapter of the Gospel of John. Seven men in the most natural setting you can imagine talked and ate with a risen Jesus; He whom they knew to be crucified and »
Why French Parents Are Superior
A thought provoking article regarding how Americans fret over parenthood that was written by Pamela Druckerman for Wall Street Journal detailing her investigation of French parenting. Driven by her self-proclaimed maternal desperation, the article entitled "Why French Parents are Superior" talks of how the French are raising happy, well-behaved children »
High School Report: U.S. Ninth Worst for High School Dropouts
The United States now ranks near the bottom of the list of advanced economies for its high school dropout rate — 23.3 percent of American students do not receive a high school diploma. Of the roughly 4 million students who enter high school each year, about 1 million will drop »
The Unbridgeable Great Chasm
Blood and gore; maggots and worms. Cinematography, the art and science of creating movies on the big screen and television, has come a long way in one century. It has progressed from the herky-jerky silent screen to producing almost anything the eye can imagine; and it can depict death in »
Civil Discourse on Life Support?
Uncivil discourse is once again in the headlines, if indeed it ever left it, especially when the attention-drawing offending words came from a famous conservative pundit. Is this not always the case, the conservative draws the ire of the media while previous far more vile remarks do not even raise »
Afraid To Die
Are you afraid to die? Obviously, those who take their own life fear pain more than death. Dying is preferable in their perspective than what they are experiencing in the moment, or in their recent past. The majority of people seek to live with a natural instinct for life, and »
PAYH Wins First Prize in Spartan Race
On March 10th the Paul Anderson Youth Home (PAYH) won first place out of over 5000 competitors in the Spartan Race in Conyers, Georgia. PAYH young men: Chad, David, Dillon, and Sam, as well as Brooks Sullards (alumnus (’90) and staff member) competed as a team and won first place »
