by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Washington D.C. has many monuments to heroes – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to name a few. There are not many Americans who remember the name Arland Williams or who are familiar with the monument in his honor. Air...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the early 1870’s, the United Brethren Churches held their annual convention on the campus of Hartsville College in Hartsville, Indiana. One year the college president opened the conference by commenting, “We live in an exciting age, the age of inventions.” A United...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 10, 2018 | Determination Despite the Odds, Never Give Up, Tests and Trials, Uncategorized
In 1834, although he had signed a contract with his publisher to produce a general history of the French revolution, the philosopher John Stuart Mill discovered that he was too busy with other commitments to tackle the work. So instead of writing the book himself,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Long Shots, Uncategorized
Forty miles from Lebourget Air Field in Paris, he began to see the flares. Thirty-three hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He was hoping to become the first pilot to make a solo...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Chasing Your Dream, Determination Despite the Odds, Hanging on to Hope, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
As a young boy, Matthew Barnett had a dream for a church that would remain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. His father, Tommy Barnett, the pastor of one of the three largest churches in America, inspired him to start an inner-city ministry in Los Angeles,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Determination Despite the Odds, Finding Hope, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
In the spring of 1943, Scottish Commander Ernest Gordon lay dying in the infamous Japanese prison camp, Chungkai, located in a Thailand jungle on the bank of the Kwai River. He had been placed on the muddy ground next to several corpses in the filthy camp...
