PEOPLE BRIDGES

SPOKANE IS A CITY OF BRIDGES. These bridges are crucial for connecting south and north Spokane. This city has the truly magnificent Spokane River which is a tributary to the mighty Columbia River a hundred miles away. The integrity...

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UNSTUCK

"Unstuck" is a descriptive word, an adjective. When an object becomes unstuck, it is freed or loosened from being fastened or stuck. An example would be an unopened door; when firmly pushed, it becomes unstuck and able to be opened. People...

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TIME FOR A TRADE-IN

The auto industry survives on used car sales, not new car sales, according to some experts in the car and truck industry. One highly successful dealership has a standard financial goal of grossing $5,000 per each used car sale....

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WAR AGAINST UNBELIEF

Sad to say, in today’s culture you and I are at war. The enemy is unbelief. Too often we view the enemy as other people, but in reality, it is our personal unbelief. Unbelief is a determined refusal to believe, spiritual...

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HANG TIGHT TO HOPE

HOPE IS REAL ANTICIPATION IN A VERY TOUGH AND DIFFICULT WORLD. Hope is our medicine for depression, failure, discouragement, illness, broken dreams. Hope is the cure for dark days when it seems life really sucks. Hope is that divine energy the marathon...

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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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