TEN THOUSAND BOOKS

The time has come! Ten thousand WORDS OF HOPE books are now being published: Full-color, hard-back cover416 pages of wisdom366 Hope messages The daily messages are to inform, inspire, and entertain. For the author Fred Crowell, it was a five-year labor of faith,...

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BASKETBALL, A SMALL TOWN RELIGION

Anacortes is a small fishing, lumber town in northwest Washington. This community has lived, breathed, and died basketball. It has been the town religion. No one cared whether you were Catholic or Protestant but you had to love basketball! The Anacortes...

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THE WORD — Learn it, speak it, obey it!

What is a word? It is a revealer, a messenger; it can also be a unit of a spoken or written expression.  The ultimate source of wisdom is THE WORD, and THE WORD was with God before anything else existed. Christ, as THE...

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BE LIKE RAIN DRIZZLE

Music is the universal language of the world. Melodic music can be like the soft drizzle of rain, in other words, light rain in fine drops. It just falls effortlessly. It's just rain. Our brains tend to become distracted and...

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HINDS FEET

Difficulties and troubles in this world often cause us to cry out unthinkingly for help to be strong, brave, and invincible. Even for me, the medical field has told me the best way to beat cancer is to have...

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CANCER BEATER #1: THE SPIRIT

To WIN against cancer, it is first and foremost necessary to understand what war and winning are. War is intense conflict and combat; winning is conquering and gaining a triumph.  Unfortunately, cancer has no rules. Cancer cheats. It goes after...

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LIFT UP SOMEONE

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up." This is a wise statement by Booker T. Washington. A great example of lifting up others is my wife's Grandma Jesse. She outlived many others to the age of 108...

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COACH ED PEPPLE

Ed Pepple (1932-2020) was a great high school basketball coach for 49 years in the state of Washington, 42 of those years at Mercer Island High School. For those winning years, he had been inducted into Washington Sports Hall...

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CERTAIN PATH TO PEACE

With many mental parts moving about in the "Crowell Cooker" today, I wonder how do I find peace where there is so much pain in our world, both micro and macro? The world is circling and colliding with fears, panic and...

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THE ONE AMAZING ENCOURAGE TOOL: THE PERSONAL LETTER

In life experience laboratories, human condition scientists search to find new methods to educate people to live at maximum potential. Their one mystery question is: HOW DO WE BEST MOTIVATE HUMANITY? To relate to the past and present, questions...

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